Episode description

Daniel Mason’s North Woods follows one house in the woods of New England as it passes through families (with inhabitants both human and not) and endures natural and human history. Mason joins us to talk about how he connected with his setting, writing a novel covering a large timespan, playing with form and more. 

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray chronicles the saga of a family in a post-economic-collapse Ireland. Murray joins us to talk about the cultural background of his novel, writing a dysfunctional family, the influences of Joyce and Faulkner and more. 

Listen in as these authors speak separately with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over.   

This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.           

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Featured Books (Episode): 

North Woods by Daniel Mason 

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray 

The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason 

The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason 

Walden by Henry David Thoreau  

Skippy Dies by Paul Murray 

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 

Ulysses by James Joyce 

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon 

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital by Lorrie Moore 

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner