Podcast Episodes featuring John Banville

John Banville: Literary Confessions

What It Takes® - June 18, 2018 07:01 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 913 ratings
A darkly funny conversation about writing, weather & Ireland. Banville, a Booker Prize-winning novelist and master wordsmith, explains why nothing in the world is more powerful than the sentence. He has sometimes spent weeks getting one just right. He's also a contrarian, and talks about why he ...

John Banville | Mrs. Osmond

Free Library Podcast - February 02, 2018 10:41 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 106 ratings
Watch the video here. John Banville won the Man Booker Prize for The Sea, a story of loss and the fickle power of memory celebrated for its ''power and strangeness and piercing beauty'' (The Washington Post Book World). His other fiction-including The Book of Evidence, Ancient Light, and The Un...