Ep 13 - 'Books That Saved My Life' with Michael McGirr
Join Corrie Perkin and Michael McGirr for a conversation that spans more than just writing and reading.
Michael is a writer, essayist, teacher (and a former Jesuit priest) and his latest work Books That Saved My Life: Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure is out now and available HERE.
Corri…
Colm Tóibín: In Conversation
Author, essayist and poet Colm Tóibín is one of Ireland’s greatest living writers. He discusses his life and work, including his recent book The Testament of Mary, in which he re-imagines the life of Christ through the eyes of the holiest of saints. With Michael McGirr. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c…
Joy Dettman and Michael McGirr
In Joy Dettman’s ‘The Hope Flower’ there is a volatile mother, her children raise themselves away from the gaze of the authorities, but when she emerges after body shaping surgery, will it be for hope or hell? Michael McGirr provides us with a potted history of philosophy connecting the ideas and t…
Karen Turner and Michael McGirr
During a bombing raid over Yorkshire in WW2, a German pilot is shot down and protected by a farming family for what reason and what risk? Karen Turner has written a big book of sacrifice and love and what the past can teach us in ‘Stormbird’. Garry Disher’s cold case mystery in, ‘The Way It Is Now…
Summer Reading: Jane Austen, Joan Silber, Kevin Barry and Elizabeth Strout
A new interview with Elizabeth Strout about Oh, William! and the Bookshelf that Made Her; and favourite review discussions from the year about Jane Austen, Joan Silber and Kevin Barry with readers Ruth Wilson and Michael McGirr
The Book Club: John Hughes' The Dogs + Kate Grenville's The Secret River
Reading John Hughes' The Dogs and Kate Grenville's The Secret River with historian David Hunt and writer and philosopher Michael McGirr
Remembering Pope Francis
In the debut episode of Shining a Light, we reflect on the life, leadership, and legacy of Pope Francis—a spiritual reformer, global moral voice, and the first South American Pope in history.
Following his recent passing at the age of 88, hosts Paul Hooper and Terry Laidler are joined by a panel …
Greyhounds, dark academia and an Amish community in new fiction by Toni Jordan, R.F. Kuang and Ron Rindo
An Australian story of the tender, eager lives of greyhounds and their owners in Tenderfoot by Australian author Toni Jordan. Dark academia in Yellowface author R.F. Kuang’s new fantasy novel, Katabasis. Sport, miracles, and the Amish, in Ron Rindo’s Life, and Death, and Giants.
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Toni Jordan,…
Ian Dunt, the California wildfires, books that saved my life
Can Theresa May survive the latest Brexit debacle? Every year the fires burn and so do debates about how to deal with them. Michael McGirr on the books that saved his life.
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