Eleanor Catton: Youngest-ever Booker Prize winner on her new book 'Birnam Wood'
In 2013, our very own Eleanor Catton became the youngest-ever winner of the Booker Prize at 28-years-old with The Luminaires.
In the decade since, she adapted the book for television, wrote the feature film screenplay for Jane Austen’s Emma, moved to the UK and had a child.
And now, a decade …
Eclectic New Zealand Acid Trap
Thoughts (loosely) based on Eleanor Catton's eco-thriller Birnam Wood.
Special Guests: The Big Lebowski, The Dude, Hasan Minaj, and Anand Giridharadas.
Eleanor Catton: Birnam Wood
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Eleanor Catton became the youngest winner of the Booker Prize in 2013 for her sprawling Victorian mystery The Luminaries. Its keenly anticipated follow-up, Birnam Wood, is a psychological thriller set in rural New Zealand, where super-rich foreigners face off w…
It's a Wrap 2023 - Part 1
Liv, Rach and Laura get together to wrap up the year and have SO much to chat about that the episode has to be split into two!
In this episode (Part 1) we talk about the books of the year, our favourites, our customers' favourites, and our top recommendations for Christmas. This is PACKED full of …
Book Chat Made Us Read It!
Links for Book Break 03/20/2024
Join GPL librarian Claire and special guest, my fellow librarian Molly, as we talk recent reads suggested by our Monday Night Book Chat.
Here are the books we’re discussing, with links to find them in the library catalog or at Bookshop.Org
Vera Wong's Unsolicited…
Hélène Cardona: Poetry in the Kairos- Medicine for the Soul in Dark Times
Join me in welcoming Hélène Cardona, poet, actor, translator, dream analyst, and linguist. Today's episode is a conversation and a beautiful reading from her Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry), “a vivid self-portrait as scholar, seer and muse” as John Ashbery, tells us. Cardona is author of Dreamin…
Next Up: Birnam Wood - Eleanor Catton
Gary, Whitney, and Mira analyze another recently-published novel on the next episode of Writers Who Read. Next up: Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton.
Eco-ravaging for profit and the technology of the surveillance state are a few of the mechanisms that keep the ultra-rich in control. A multi-billionaire…
58: Birnam Wood - Eleanor Catton
Whitney Pinion and Mira Landry join Gary McBride to talk about Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton, which is Writers Who Read book number 58. Discussion slides for this novel and all novels discussed are available at WritersWhoRead.com. More information about Literary Forensics is available here and here…
Oscars and Birnam Wood
What is Booklovers without Rea? Jess & Joseph find out on this episode, as they're left to their own devices to discuss both the 96th Academy Awards and Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton.
To start with the Oscars, we're talking about the big shift in Oscar-nominated film watching, because it's rar…
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