The Podcast
I had two goals today: Laundry and Learning to Podcast. I did the latter, to the best of my ability. Please GO HERE and listen to the podcast. I even have a guest interview!
I had two goals today: Laundry and Learning to Podcast. I did the latter, to the best of my ability. Please GO HERE and listen to the podcast. I even have a guest interview!
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I'm v. pleased with achieving my goal.
I would like to interview "the critic" and ask him to be a bit more specific. Which of the author's books has he read? What did he not like about them? And which one did he not finish. Does he view AT as a "chick book" author, ala Jackie Collins? I need specifics.
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Anne Tyler is a novelist who has elevated the pitch-perfect observation of everyday detail into an art form. There are moments in her 18th novel, Noah's Compass, where her prose is so unassuming, so exact in the placement of each word, that it is easy to let it glide over you like an overheard conversation, failing to realise quite how brilliantly it is executed. As a consequence, Tyler has never received the public acclamation she deserves. Although she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for her masterly novel, Breathing Lessons, she is not spoken of in the same breath as those other great chroniclers of the American diaspora, men such as Philip Roth or John Updike. Yet her novels are, in their own measured way, equally dazzling.
jw
I have been advised by my lawyers not to answer any questions on this matter. Please direct all further inquiries to Ken Nunn.
He didn't like Digging to America. (Was that the title?)
So...anyway... he does like Anne!
Anne, if you're reading this, you have many fans here on High Street.
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