The World According to Garp Podcast Episodes

Written by John Irving

5 Episodes - 610 pages - ★★★★ - 179K ratings

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The World According to Garp

Matinee Heroes - August 10, 2019 05:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 36 ratings
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP When Jenny Fields decides to become a mother, she has no intention of finding a husband or of having marital sex, so she gets herself pregnant by a hospitalized solder on his deathbed. And so begins the unusual life of Garp who is destined to be anything except what he...
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John Irving on why The World According to Garp is more relevant now than he ever imagined

Q: Video Podcast - November 12, 2018 14:00 - 46 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 24 ratings
Author John Irving reflects on the book that made him famous, The World According to Garp, 40 years after its release. He sat down with Tom Power to discuss why he believes its themes are more relevant than ever, despite thinking it would be dated by the time it was released in 1978.
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Ep 227 - The World According to Garp, by John Irving

Overdue - February 27, 2017 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
This week we bring you The World According to Garp according to Andrew - we breeze through John Irving’s best-known “middlebrow” novel, touching on its feminist leanings, its surprising progressivism as it regards the transgendered, and both the dark humor and the just-plain-darkness lu...
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WHY NOT #20- Why Not The World According To Garp?

NOWHERE CALIFORNIA - December 02, 2015 06:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
This installment of Why Not? begins our final three movies in our Robin Williams collection and this one brings some mixed reactions, as we talk about "The World According To Garp" What Are Your Thoughts About This Pick? Tell Us.. www.nowherecalifornia.com
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#131 - Raging Bull / The World According To Garp / Top 5 Biopics We'd Like To See

Deep Dive Film School - April 26, 2011 16:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 88 ratings
I'm gonna open his hole like this. Please excuse my French. I'm gonna make him suffer. I'm gonna make his mother listen to this podcast. This week we converse about one of the all time great American films, Scorsese's Raging Bull. We keep giving it to Palcher as we review The World According To ...
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