Bfm :: Bookmark

This week, on Bookmark, Uma speaks to Jay Asher - the author of the bestselling Thirteen Reasons Why - about making that inevitable leap from page to screen. (Jay Asher was one of the many speakers featured at the 2017 edition of the Singapore Writers Festival. Be sure to check out their website for more information on their ongoing efforts towards reading and writing. https://www.singaporewritersfestival.com/)

This week, in conjunction with Universal Children's Day 2017, Uma speaks to three avid young readers about their love affair with books.

This week, on Bookmark, Uma speaks to award winning author Junot Diaz about the mainstreaming of nerd culture. (Junot Diaz was one of the many speakers featured at the 2017 edition of the Singapore Writers Festival. Be sure to check out their website for more information on their ongoing efforts towards reading and writing. https://www.singaporewritersfestival.com/)

This week, on Bookmark, Uma speaks to author, playwright, and poet Simon Armitage about the sheer unadulterated joy of walking without purpose or direction.

This week, on Bookmark, Uma speaks to acclaimed science fiction author Ken Liu about his recent forays into the Star Wars Universe. *This interview was conducted at the 2017 edition of the Singapore Writers Festival which continues until the 12th of November. You can find out more information about their programme here. https://www.singaporewritersfestival.com/

This week, on Bookmark, Uma speaks to entrepreneur, businessman, brand builder - and newly minted author - Tony Fernandes about his brand new autobiography.

This week, on Bookmark, Uma speaks to JY Yang, the Singaporean author of the brand new series of silkpunk fantasy novellas: The Red Threads of Fortune and The Black Tides of Heaven. *You can catch JY at the 2017 edition of the Singapore Writers Festival. You can find more information about that here.

This week, on Bookmark, Uma welcomes football pundit Bob Holmes to the show for a conversation about his brand new book - "Living the Dream... or Enduring the Nightmare" - that takes on the sordid world of foreign ownership in English football.

This week, on Bookmark, Uma speaks to best-selling author and poet Kwame Alexander about "Solo" - his incredible new novel written entirely in verse.

This week, on Bookmark, Uma speaks to best-selling author Andy Weir about his breakout first novel, that insanely successful scientific mediation on being lonely and stranded on Mars, "The Martian".

This week, on Bookmark, Uma speaks to M.R. Carey - writer of books, comic books, and movies - about his refreshing re-imagining of the zombie genre.

This week, on Bookmark, Uma speaks author and journalist Graham Holliday about the vast and wondrous world of Korean cuisine, about how their food and the eating of it ties into culture and politics, of how it affects their every social interaction, of how it’s changing and evolving along with their social fabric.

Earlier this year, The Guardian ran an article about how 35-year-old Malaysian Felicia Yap was a rising star in the literary scene whose debut novel - simply called Yesterday - reportedly earned her a six-figure advance following a much hyped bidding war. This week, on Bookmark, Uma caught up with Felicia for a chat about her book, her inspirations, her process, and what she’s doing next.

This week, on Bookmark, Uma speaks to photographer S.C. Shekar and writer Liew Suet Fun about their wonderful, massive, weighty tome - Grit and Grace: The Grandeur of Monochrome Malaysia - and their efforts at chronicling and capturing every inch of our magnificent country through minimalist prose and stunning pictures.

The history of Malaysia is not only what is chosen to be printed in the textbooks in school. The history of Malaysia is made up of the various stories of each and every Malaysian. This week, on Bookmark, Uma speaks to writer and journalist Niki Cheong about his #SejarahKita project and the importance of chronicling our collective oral histories.

This week, on Bookmark, Uma speaks to animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg about the hidden world of animal intelligence and how it can help better understand ourselves and the world around us.

Mimicry and Camouflage, Peter Forbes’s cultural history links mimicry and camouflage to art, literature, military tactics and medical cures across the twentieth century, and charts its intricate involvement with the perennial dispute between evolution and creationism. This week, Uma speaks to science writer Peter Forbes about how humanity has learned from and exploited some of these infinite possibilities. Especially when it comes to making war.

This week, on Bookmark, Uma and author Harlan Lebo go behind the scenes to take a look at the dirty secrets, scandals, and lasting legacy of one of their favorite movies: Citizen Kane.

This week, on Bookmark, Uma speaks to author and journalist Sam Kean about the secret histories behind the seemingly staid numbers and letters on the periodic table of elements.

This week, on Bookmark, Uma has a conversation with author and historian Alexander Canducci about history's greatest lies and how they've come to change the world around us.