045 - Another Cup of Tea - A Quarantine Hangout
Gen and Jette hang out... virtually. It's been a wild ride since our last hangout episode in February. The world is different - actually... Look below for links, anti-racist resources, and a great lecture on James Baldwin's Another Country.
Since we're crushing our Goodreads goals in quarantine - …
SKYLIT: Abdellah Taïa, "A COUNTRY FOR DYING" w/ Colm Toíbín
Paris, Summer 2010.
Zahira is 40 years old, Moroccan, a prostitute, traumatized by her father's suicide decades prior, and in love with a man who no longer loves her. Zannouba, Zahira's friend and protege, formerly known as Aziz, prepares for gender confirmation surgery and reflects on the reoccur…
Colm Toíbín on How To Write
One of our favourite moments from The Literary Salon. Colm Toíbín gives some home truths on how to write.
"The only way to do it is to do it. The only way to work is to work. How do you write a novel? You write a novel. Why are you not doing it now. Go home."
The full talk with Damian Barr avail…
Ep 196: Our Top 10 Books of 2021
Anna, Amanda and Annie pick our top ten books of 2021.
Our favourite reads (in no particular order) were:
1. Moth by Melody Razak
2. Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
3. The Magician by Colm Toíbín
4. Phosphorescence by Julia Baird
5. Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
6. The Luminous …
The Power of Books in a Time of Crisis feat. Logan Lockner
In this special bonus episode of Gays Reading, host Jason Blitman talks with Logan Lockner about an article from New York Magazine, in which Lockner talks about the books he chose to save during his evacuation from the LA fires, and the invaluable role books play in our lives as sources of comfort …
Novel Approaches: ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ by Henry James
In The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James borrows from Eliot, Austen, folktales and potboilers, but ‘the thing that he took from nowhere was Isabel Archer’. James transformed the 19th-century novel through his evocation of Isabel, a woman who wants and suffers in a profoundly new (and American) way.
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‘The Portrait of a Lady’ by Henry James
In The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James borrows from Eliot, Austen, folktales and potboilers, but ‘the thing that he took from nowhere was Isabel Archer’. James transformed the 19th-century novel through his evocation of Isabel, a woman who wants and suffers in a profoundly new (and American) way.
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Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín is an Irish writer. Born in Enniscorthy, he is the author of eleven novels, including The Master, Brooklyn and The Magician, and two collections of stories.
His novel Brooklyn was an immediate bestseller on publication and was adapted into an Oscar- nominated film starring Saoirse Ron…
Travel with Close Readings: ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ by Henry James
In The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James borrows from Eliot, Austen, folktales and potboilers, but ‘the thing that he took from nowhere was Isabel Archer’. James transformed the 19th-century novel through his evocation of Isabel, a woman who wants and suffers in a profoundly new (and American) way.
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