This Writing Life
Episodes
Monday Jul 27, 2015
Episode 17 - Tom Drury on Light
Monday Jul 27, 2015
Monday Jul 27, 2015
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 'Accident at the Sugar Beet', which became an episode in The End of Vandalism, for the New Yorker here.
Friday Jul 17, 2015
Episode 16 - Tom Drury Part 1
Friday Jul 17, 2015
Friday Jul 17, 2015
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.
Wednesday Jul 15, 2015
Episode 15 - Tom Drury on Music and Memory
Wednesday Jul 15, 2015
Wednesday Jul 15, 2015
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.
Monday Jul 13, 2015
Episode 14 - Amit Chaudhuri Part 2
Monday Jul 13, 2015
Monday Jul 13, 2015
The second part of my chat with Amit Chaudhuri began with a discussion of his literary inheritance - that combined Philip Larkin with Tagore.
Friday Jul 03, 2015
Episode 13 - Amit Chaudhuri Part 1
Friday Jul 03, 2015
Friday Jul 03, 2015
Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, academic and musician whose books include A New World, The Immortals and most recently Odysseus Abroad.
Friday Jul 03, 2015
Episode 12 - Brian Turner Part 4
Friday Jul 03, 2015
Friday Jul 03, 2015
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.