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 20 - Tom Drury Part 3
In the third part of my conversation with Tom Drury, we rewind to his days studying creative writing with Robert Coover, 'a great teacher'.----more---- After a discussion about realism and seriousness, Drury moves on to: his early short storieshis at...
Episode 19 - Tom Drury on the Internet
A small taster for part three of my chat with Tom Drury. We talk MP3s, social networking, email, and The New Luddites from the third Grouse County novel, Pacific.
Episode 18 - Tom Drury Part 2
In the second part of my interview with Tom Drury, one of America's finest living novelists, we begin by discussing the railroad and its part in linking places like Grouse County to the outside world. ----more----We then moved on to: his parentsradio...
Episode 17 - Tom Drury on Light
In this stopgap between podcasts, Tom Drury discusses the use of light in his debut novel, The End of Vandalism. 'I love that there would be some incidental lighting in the dark, like the dryer, you know?' Hear Antonya Nelson read Tom Drury's 'Accide...
Episode 16 - Tom Drury Part 1
Tom Drury is the author of six astounding novels. Three - his masterpiece The End of Vandalism, Hunts in Dreams and Pacific - are set in the same fictional Grouse County area of Iowa - Drury's home-state. ----more----We met the day after The End of V...
Episode 15 - Tom Drury on Music and Memory
In the next episode of This Writing Life, James Kidd talks to the extraordinary American novelist Tom Drury, author of The End of Vandalism, Hunts in Dreams, Pacific and The Driftless Area, among others. ----more----In this trailer for our two-part c...
Episode 14 - Amit Chaudhuri Part 2
The second part of my chat with Amit Chaudhuri began with a discussion of his literary inheritance - that combined Philip Larkin with Tagore. ----more----From there we headed towards Bengali culture and onwards to: Ideas of 'ownership' of culture - B...
Episode 13 - Amit Chaudhuri Part 1
Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, academic and musician whose books include A New World, The Immortals and most recently Odysseus Abroad. ----more----His talent for close observation of everyday details, events and characters have earned him comparison t...
Episode 12 - Brian Turner Part 4
In the final part of my epic conversation with the American soldier-poet Brian Turner, our attention turned to the question: does writing help confront trauma and the violence he has witnessed and indeed participated in. ----more----Other subjects in...
Episode 11 - Brian Turner reads Ferris Wheel
Brian Turner reads his poem Ferris Wheel, from the collection Here, Bullet.