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Recall this Book 54: Novel Dialogue with Helen Garner (Crossover)
- Author(s):
- Helen Garner, Elizabeth McMahon, John Plotz
- Date:
- 2021
- Subject(s):
- Literature
- Item Type:
- Podcast
- Tag(s):
- Books
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/ge8m-mc28
- Abstract:
- Helen Garner sits down with John and Elizabeth McMahon, a distinguished scholar of Australian literature. Helen's novels range from the anti-patriarchy exuberance of Monkey Grip (1977) to the heartbreaking mortality at the heart of The Spare Room (2008). She has also authored a slew of nonfiction, plus screenplays for Jane Campion's Two Friends and Gillian Armstrong's wonderfully Garneresque The Last Days of Chez Nous. After a reading from John's favorite, The Children's Bach, the trio discusses Garner's capacity for cutting and cutting, creating resonant, thought-inducing gaps. Garner connects that taste for excision, perhaps paradoxically, to her tendency to accumulate scraps, bits and pieces of life. She relates her father's restlessness to her own life-total of houses inhabited (27). "Why wouldn't I write about households?" asks Helen, "They're just so endlessly interesting."
- Notes:
- https://doi.org/10.48617/pod.278
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Podcast Show details
- Pub. URL:
- https://newbooksnetwork.com/54-crossover-month-3-novel-dialogue-with-helen-garner-elizabeth-mcmahon-jp
- Publisher:
- Brandeis University
- Pub. Date:
- 04/22/2021
- Episode:
- 54
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 12 months ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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