Podcast Episodes featuring Claire Messud

Claire Messud

The Thing About France - May 15, 2019 19:24 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 170 ratings
When I started as Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy, everyone told me that I had to meet Claire Messud—that she was quintessential Francophile intellectual, not to mention author of six works of fiction. We conversed about what it means to be a citizen of the world (2:04), literature (4:...

Claire Messud on long-lost friendships

Lit Up - July 22, 2018 14:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 117 ratings
Claire Messud and Angie talk about her new novel "The Burning Girl," as well as Claire's childhood years in Australia, and how childhood friendships can haunt and define us. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Salman Rushdie | The Golden House with Claire Messud | The Burning Girl

Free Library Podcast - July 16, 2018 10:20 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 106 ratings
Watch the video here. ''A master of perpetual storytelling'' (The New Yorker), Salman Rushdie is the author of a dozen novels, including Shame, The Satanic Verses, and Midnight's Children, winner of the Booker Prize in 1981 and the ''Booker of Bookers'' Prize in 1993. His other works include a ...

116. Claire Messud (writer) – All These Falls From Grace

Think Again – a Big Think Podcast - September 16, 2017 10:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 556 ratings
Author Claire Messud and host Jason Gots talk about childhood, growing up, and how cultures contain the things that scare them most. Also, how to give and receive good criticism on creative writing in this, Big Think's latest brain-fertilizing podcast. Claire Messud is the author of seven novels...

Claire Messud

Slate Conversations - August 31, 2017 06:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 179 ratings
Author Claire Messud sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss her new novel, The Burning Girl, how Elena Ferrante opened up more space for writing about women, how New York City has changed since she wrote The Emperor’s Children, and what it’s like to be married to a literary critic. Learn more a...

Author2Author with Claire Messud

Author2Author - August 30, 2017 21:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Bill welcomes acclaimed novelist Claire Messud to the show. Claire has twice been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; her second novel, The Last Life, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and Editor's Choice at The Village Voice. All of her books have been New York Times Notable Books...