The best-selling and (mostly) critically acclaimed Irish novelist Sally Rooney has sometimes come under fire for not-despite her professed personal left-leaning politics-writing “Marxist” novels.
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Subscribe to Bookmark This! Podcast series and rate us on your favourite audio apps:įollow Olivia Ho on Instagram: Toh Wen Li's stories: įollow our shows then, if you like short, practical podcasts!See /listener for privacy information. Produced by: Olivia Ho Toh Wen Li Penelope Lee Synopsis: A monthly literary podcast by The Straits Times featuring titles in the headlines and sizzling reads.In the latest episode of this literary podcast, The Straits Times journalists Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li talk about new and old in the latest works by Sally Rooney and Anne Carson, from the millennial crisis of Beautiful World, Where Are You to the reworking of Greek myth in H Of H Playbook.īeautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney (0:54) Levine“The War for Gloria” by Atticus Lish“The Magician” by Colm Toibinīookmark This! Ep 26: The worlds of Sally Rooney and Anne Carson Pamela Paul is the host.Here are the books discussed by the Times’s critics this week:“The Failed Promise” by Robert S.
I was trying to get behind the faces of clocks and watches, to understand not so much how they work - although that’s fascinating - but what they mean, and what they’ve always meant, through history, across cultures.”Also on this week’s episode, Tina Jordan looks back at Book Review history as it celebrates its 125th anniversary Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world and Jennifer Szalai and John Williams talk about books that have been recently reviewed. “And if you’re a Sally Rooney skeptic, I think she will acknowledge your concerns but maybe not answer them in full.”Another Rooney, David Rooney, visits the podcast to discuss his new book, “About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks.”“There’s something about clocks and watches,” he says.” They have more meaning to many people than other artifacts. “Ultimately, if you’re a Sally Rooney fan, I think you’ll love this novel,” Taylor says. Davies/Knopf Canada) 8:34 Sally Rooneys new novel is exquisitely. It is so clean, so pristine.” Like her two previous books, this one is fueled by the vexations of intimate relationships. Sally Rooneys third novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You, was published on Sept. That is the word I come to most often in describing her style. Taylor recently reviewed her third novel, “Beautiful World, Where Are You.” On the podcast, he describes Rooney’s writing as an “intense, melancholic tractor beam.”“She has this really great, tactile metaphorical sense, but it’s never overworked,” he says. The novelist Brandon Taylor, who has generated his own buzz with his debut novel, “Real Life,” and a collection of stories, “Filthy Animals,” visits the podcast to discuss the much-discussed work of Sally Rooney.
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