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 10 - Brian Turner Part 3
In part three of my epic conversation with Brian Turner, we begin by discussing how the Soldier Poet bears witness, ----more----and how ideas of complicity distinguish this from other kinds of war writing. We then moved on to:what inspired Turner to ...
Episode 09 - Brian Turner reads from My Life as a Foreign Country
Brian Turner reads and discusses a passage from his memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country. Tim Adams' review in the Observer is: here.Brian Turner's website is: here.
Episode 08 - Brian Turner Part 2
In the second part of my lengthy conversation with the poet Brian Turner we begin by discussing language - in particular pejorative terms like 'Haji'. Turner moves from this, through coining 'otherise', to recall his own experiences in Iraq. ----more...
Episode 07 - Brian Turner Part 1
Brian Turner has become world famous for his war poetry, which was largely inspired by a year-long tour of Iraq with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. The ostensible reason for our meeting, however, was first sustained work ...
Episode 06 - Brian Turner reads Here, Bullet
Brian Turner, the next guest on This Writing Life, reads the title poem from his first collection, Here Bullet. As a soldier in the US army, Turner served in Bosnia and Iraq, before turning to writing. He is the author of three books: in addition to ...
Episode 05 - Tomas Gonzalez: Part 2
In part two of my conversation with Tomas Gonzalez in an echoey London hotel, we continued to discuss his dark, autobiographical debut novel In the Beginning was the Sea. ----more----We began with the influence of Carson McCullers, William Faulkner a...
Episode 04 - Tomas Gonzalez: Part 1
The Colombian novelist Tomas Gonzalez has been writing for three decades, but has only been read this year by an English-speaking audience after his debut, In the Beginning Was the Sea, was published by the wonderful Pushkin Press. ----more----Terse ...
Episode 03 - Karen Joy Fowler: Part Two
In the second half of my conversation with Karen Joy Fowler, we shift seamlessly (sort of) from Star Wars to ponder: ----more----self, other, difference and childhood,whether an interesting childhood a good thing,parentting as experiment,bad dads,res...
Episode 02 - Karen Joy Fowler Reads from We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler reads from We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.
Episode 01 - Karen Joy Fowler: Part One
Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves is one of 2014's most memorable and lauded novels. Having received rave reviews across the world, it won the Pen/Faulkner in the United States and then became one of the first works by an Amer...