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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 16 hours 38 minutes
Episode 30 - Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life - Part 3
In the final part of my discussion with Hanya Yanagihara on her (now) Man Booker shortlisted novel A Little Life, we continue our discussion of male repression. ----more----From there we take in: the 'wolflike' character of Calebmoney as salvation ...
Episode 29 - Hanya Yanagihara on Kids, Convention and the Queer Tradition
As short taster for the final part of our conversation with Hanya Yanagihara about A Little Life, here is a short consideration of children, convention and the novel as queer classic. Part three to follow.
Episode 28 - Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life - Part 2
In the second part of our lunch-time chat with Hanya Yanagihara for the amazing A Little Life, we began by discussing how her second book was a reaction to her debut, the also amazing The People in the Trees.----more---- ‘I just wanted to do somethin...
episode 15: Episode 27 - Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life - Part 1
For the second Writing Life Podcast conversation with Hanya Yanagihara, we moved from tea at a posh London hotel to lunch at a posh(ish) London restaurant. This was not the only difference. Yanagihara had herself moved: jobs, from Conde Nast to the N...
Episode 26 - Anna Smaill: Part 2
In part two of This Writing Life's podcast with Anna Smaill, we negotiate photographers, noises in RIBA and publicists to discuss her soon-to-be Man Booker longlisted debut novel, The Chimes. ----more---- We began by talking about the taunting idea o...
Episode 25 - Anna Smaill Part 1
Anna Smaill is a New Zealand poet, academic and now Man Booker longlisted novelist. ----more----Her striking debut The Chimes has something of all parts of her career so far. There is music (Smaill trained as a violinist), lyricism (in evoking a worl...
Episode 24 - Hanya Yanagihara: The People in Trees - Part 3
In the final part of my Yanagihara trilogy from 2014, we continue to discuss her astonishing, unnerving debut The People in the Trees. ----more----Yanagihara begins by answering my question about whether her fiction sets out to astonish or unnerve. S...
Episode 23 - Hanya Yanagihara: The People in Trees - Part 2
In the second part of my nicely noisy conversation with Hanya Yanagihara about her debut novel The People in the Trees, we began by discussing ----more----the fictional tribe of Ivu'ivu who may have discovered the secret to extending the natural hum...
Episode 22- Hanya Yanagihara: The People in Trees - Part 1
Hawaiian-born Hanya Yanagihara has been feted across the world, and longlisted for 2015's Man Booker Prize, for her amazing A Little Life. A Writing Life podcast is on the way.----more---- Last year Writing Life met Hanya for equally unsettling and u...
Episode 21 - Hanya Yanagihara 2014 on Book Groups
A short taster for my first interview with Hanya Yanagihara from 2014 about her extraordinary debut novel, The People in Trees. A Writing Life podcast with Hanya about her differently extraordinary Man Booker longlisted A Little Life will be out las...