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Ambiguity & metaphor in The Last Good Man with Thomas McMullan
FromThe Writing Life
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Length:
73 minutes
Released:
Apr 7, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
What is The Last Good Man about? When Duncan Peck arrives at a remote village in Dartmoor, he immediately notices the wall towering over it and displaying messages written by the inhabitants. Simon read it as a metaphor for social media and online discourse, Thomas references anonymous, public writing in China, and the book remains resolutely ambiguous.
Thomas joins us on the pod to discuss the balance of information needed to keep a book ambiguous, with the discussion taking in everything from Gamergate, Twitter, the concept of 'lore', the differences between stage and page, the curious magic inherent to the act of reading and his use of third person present tense to create an unsettling atmosphere.
Hosted by Simon Jones and Steph McKenna.
Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/3G39dRW
Find out more about what we do: http://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/
Music by Bennet Maples.
Photo by Jonathan Rin.
Thomas joins us on the pod to discuss the balance of information needed to keep a book ambiguous, with the discussion taking in everything from Gamergate, Twitter, the concept of 'lore', the differences between stage and page, the curious magic inherent to the act of reading and his use of third person present tense to create an unsettling atmosphere.
Hosted by Simon Jones and Steph McKenna.
Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/3G39dRW
Find out more about what we do: http://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/
Music by Bennet Maples.
Photo by Jonathan Rin.
Released:
Apr 7, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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