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