EPISODE · Mar 18, 2021 · 49 MIN
Vivian Gornick’s Time
from The TLS Podcast
This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the critic and novelist Claire Lowdon to consider Vivian Gornick, an American writer of essays – on literature, politics, the self – that demonstrate a rare “ability to stand back and look at the world in which she finds herself, and then set it down calmly on paper”; the TLS’s poetry editor Camille Ralphs explores the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons and some of the literature that inspired it; plus, libraries under threat (again), Unica Zürn gets her time in the sun, and the three greatest novels of the twenty-first century...so far.Taking a Long Look: Essays on culture, literature, and feminism in our time by Vivian GornickAppendix N: The eldritch roots of Dungeons and Dragons, edited by Peter Bebergalwww.the-tls.co.ukProducer: Ben Mitchell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the critic and novelist Claire Lowdon to consider Vivian Gornick, an American writer of essays – on literature, politics, the self – that demonstrate a rare “ability to stand back and look at the world in which she finds herself, and then set it down calmly on paper”; the TLS’s poetry editor Camille Ralphs explores the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons and some of the literature that inspired it; plus, libraries under threat (again), Unica Zürn gets her time in the sun, and the three greatest novels of the twenty-first century...so far.Taking a Long Look: Essays on culture, literature, and feminism in our time by Vivian GornickAppendix N: The eldritch roots of Dungeons and Dragons, edited by Peter Bebergalwww.the-tls.co.ukProducer: Ben Mitchell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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