October 24, 2024

#132: Interview: Edward Carey on Edith Holler

58 minutes

Edward Carey joins us to discuss his latest novel, Edith Holler. Welcome to episode 132!

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Rachel and I both love Edward Carey’s novels, so it was a real joy to have the opportunity to interview him. We discuss how he first got published, what inspired Edith Holler and what his books might have in common. Among his books, we discuss Observatory Mansions, Alva and Irva, The Swallowed Man, and Little.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

A Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk

The Haunted Wood by Sam Leith

Way Far Away by Evilio Rosero

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Weird Stone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner

The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper

Diana Wynne Jones

Watership Down by Richard Adams

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

The Tin Drum by Günter Grass

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Elizabeth McCracken

A Lost Lady by Willa Cather

Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather

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