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Widely-acclaimed Irish novelist Sally Rooney offers a sharp and witty take on love, sex, class and politics
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Widely-acclaimed Irish novelist Sally Rooney offers a sharp and witty take on love, sex, class and politics
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Length:
53 minutes
Released:
Apr 28, 2019
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Podcast episode
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The 28-year-old writer talks to Eleanor Wachtel about her two novels, how she engages with the social conventions of her time and how her characters navigate coming-of-age in an Ireland itself reeling from the decline of the Celtic Tiger.
Released:
Apr 28, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (26)
A virtuoso of the short story, Lydia Davis's work is surprising and memorable: Lydia Davis has been called "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction." Her 2007 short story collection, Varieties of Disturbance, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Davis's newest title, Our Strangers, contains 144 short stories in 300 pages. Lydia Davis spoke to Eleanor Wachtel on stage at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal. *This interview originally aired June 10, 2007. by Writers and Company