OurShelves: Midlife reckoning with Dana Spiotta
Ourshelves
English - February 04, 2022 02:00 - 51 minutes - 71.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture feminism books reading author interview culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: OurShelves with special guest Monica Ali
Next Episode: Ourshelves: Discovery with CN Lester
George Saunders calls Dana Spiotta a ‘great American writer’. It’s true - but why does it feel so surprising to hear a woman given that accolade. Join Lucy Scholes as she meets the award-winning author of Wayward and four other novels, celebrating the rare joy and complexity of midlife characters, from the accused widow in Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen to Olivia Colman’s haunting performance in ‘The Lost Daughter’. Together they ask: Why is this moment in life so disturbing and so powerful, and what can we learn from confronting it?
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