16/06/2012

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelists Linda Grant and Adam Mars Jones and writer Bidisha review the week's cultural highlights including David Cronenberg's film Cosmopolis.

GATZ is Elevator Repair Service's stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby in which every word of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is read and acted by the occupants of a drab American office. Scott Shepherd plays a man who, arriving at his desk and finding his computer unresponsive, picks up a paperback copy of the book and starts reading it aloud.

David Cronenberg's film Cosmopolis is an adaptation of Don DeLillo's 2003 novel and stars Robert Pattinson as Eric Packer - a billionaire financial whiz-kid who is travelling across Manhattan to get a haircut in the stretch limo he uses as an office. However, a presidential visit to the city, a rapper's funeral and a threat to Packer's life mean that the journey is far from straightforward.

Indelible Ink by Australian author Fiona McGregor is a novel about Marie King - a 59