The Book Festival you can enjoy in the bath. Interviews, Readings and Rambling chat. Journalist James Kidd talks to (not at the same time): Hanya Yanagihara, Gary Younge, Richard Russo, Tom Drury, David Mitchell, Michel Faber, LS Hilton, DBC Pierre, Sloane Crosley, Karen Joy Fowler, Vendela Vida, David Gates, Laura Lippman, Tomas Gonzalez. Amit Chaudhuri. New episode: Amanda Coe.
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episode 42: Episode 118 - Rick Bass: Part 2 - For a Little While
Part two of This Writing Life's transatlantic conversation with Rick Bass, novelist, activist, award-winning short story writer, begins with a question referencing Philip Larkin, Romanticism and Transcendentalism and continues with an answer discussing fiction, geology, humans and time: 'We are new to this world. We don't know how to be in this old world.' ----more----From here we moved towards some if not all the following:
- Bass, religion and nature
- 'fostered alike by beauty and by fear': nature as teacher?
- autobiography, family and discovering nature
- nature as idea or reality?
- Annie Gillard, Peter Matheson, Edward Abbey: Bass and nature writing
- 'I like people. I just don't like being around them': Bass as misanthropist?
- bookshops, Russians, Flannery O'Connor, Jim Harrison: how did Bass start writing?
Part 3 to follow.