Literary Friction - Writing about Writers with Tan Twan Eng

An episode of the Literary Friction podcast, hosted by Literary Friction, titled "Literary Friction - Writing about Writers with Tan Twan Eng" was published on May 18, 2023 and runs 57 minutes.

May 18, 2023 ·57m · Literary Friction

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Do you like reading about writers? What does good writing about the act of writing do? And what happens when you write a real writer into a novel? Our guest this month is Tan Twan Eng, who joined us to talk about his third novel The House of Doors. Based around the writer W. Somerset Maugham’s stay on the Island of Penang, in what was then Malaya, in 1921, it's also about the stories he learns from the couple he stays with there, and the interplay between their fact and his fiction. We’ll be talking about the real and imag...

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