Jesmyn Ward’s most recent novel Sing, Unburied Sing won the National Book Award in 2017 and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction this year. In this bonus episode, Jesmyn Ward talks to Roz Dineen about fiction, her characters, living through Hurricane Katrina, and the enormous burden of empathy. This continues a conversation started earlier in the year - and included in the podcast of April 26 - when Jesmyn discussed The Fire This Time, a collection of essays she had edited about racial politics and experience in America.
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Overrated/Underrated
Brexit, bubbles, and the best arts of 2016
God, sex and the arts / science divide
Defiance, good death and Mexico
Controlled violence
Books of the Year
Lionel Shriver: "Terror as recreation"
The life in the work
Against nature
Violence and poetry
Halloween story special
Shades of censorship
Ali Smith on Autumn
Life, writing and life-writing
The mythical Lévi-Strauss
A lecture by Terry Eagleton
Duck or Rabbit?
Rose Tremain at the Wimbledon Bookfest
Beatrix Potter, marriage, and data
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Ghostlore of Hawaii: Paranormal Paradise
That Tracks Podcast With Tim and Nick
The Jeff Does Vegas Podcast
Stuff You Should Know
Timcast IRL