Episode 44: Jim Phelan & Kelly Marsh — Caryl Phillips’s “Growing Pains”

In this episode of the Project Narrative Podcast, Jim Phelan and Kelly Marsh discuss Caryl Phillips’s short piece of life writing, “Growing Pains: A Life in 10 Chapters,” first published in The Guardian in August, 2005. Kelly Marsh is Professor of English at Mississippi State University, and her areas of expertise include narrative theory and global fiction in English since 1950. Marsh is the author of The Submerged Plot and the Mother’s Pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Roy, and of essays on Roddy Doyle, Helen Fielding, Marina Carr, Mary McCarthy, and others. Marsh is also an award-winning teacher and a storied member of the International Society for the Study of Narrative, where she has recently been elected as Second Vice President of the Society.