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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)
Jesmyn Ward on exploring the stories of America's South: Jesmyn Ward's novel, Salvage the Bones, is an intimate and compelling look at Hurricane Katrina and the American South. It won the National Book award in 2011. Following the success of Salvage the Bones, Ward released her memoir, Men We Reaped, which examines her experiences with racism, the absence of her father and the death of her younger brother. Her new novel, Let Us Descend, follows an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War. *This interview originally aired on Sept. 28, 2014. by Writers and Company