The Springs of Affection by Maeve Brennan
b"There can be few writers more deserving of Backlisted\\u2019s attention than the Irish writer, Maeve Brennan. An adopted New Yorker, Brennan died there in 1993 and was by that time so thoroughly forgotten in her native land, that she received no obituaries in any Irish papers. We are joined by the writers Sin\\xe9ad Gleason and David Hayden to discuss her collection, The Springs of Affection \\u2013 subtitled \\u2018stories of Dublin\\u2019 \\u2013 which was first published posthumously by Houghton Mifflin in 1997, although all but one of these first appeared in the New Yorker, where Brennan was a staff writer for twenty-seven years. It was the enthusiastic praise from other writers including Alice Munro, Edna O\\u2019Brien and Mavis Gallant among others, that helped get The Springs of Affection the kind of international attention that the two collections published in Maeve\\u2019s lifetime failed to achieve. Since then, Maeve Brennan\\u2019s reputation has grown steadily, and her stories are now regularly and favourably compared to those of Joyce, Chekov and Colette. In Ireland, in particular, she has won the admiration of a new generation of women writers, who in Anne Enright\\u2019s phrase, see her as \\u2018a casualty of old wars not yet won.\\u2019 This episode also features Andy revisiting the Linda Nochlin\\u2019s classic 1971 essay, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? while John is impressed by Orlam, P.J. Harvey\\u2019s dark and brooding verse novel, written entirely in Dorset dialect. \\nTimings: (may differ due to variable advert length) \\n08:44 - Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? by Linda Nochlin \\n16:16 - Orlam by P.J. Harvey \\n22:46 - The Springs Of Affection By Maeve Brennan \\n* To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops. \\n* For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm \\n* If you'd like to support the show, receive the show early and get extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/backlisted\\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices"