Guardian Books podcast: Olympic literature

As the world turns to London and the Olympics, we investigate how to inject a little sporting endeavour into your literary life.Ben Fountain's novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is about a sport that doesn't feature in the Olympics at all: American football. Described by Diana Athill as "a blazingly good novel and a vital, important book about war and the world we live in", it follows the appropriately named Bravo Squad to a match in which they are fêted as national heroes.Our second studio ...

Read full article Share article