Alice Elliott Dark on FELLOWSHIP POINT
\u201cOne thing I really have learned\u2014or at least for myself about writing\u2014is never to explain why a person is the way they are, just to make a dramatic case for why they are the way they are. So, the moments I have that are backstory, or that go back and forth in time, it's because that backstory or that moment of slippage of time is dramatically relevant to the present moment of the story.\u201d Alice Elliott Dark (In the Gloaming) returns with\xa0Fellowship Point,\xa0a spectacular novel of friendship and family, love and loss, loyalty and legacy. She joins us on the show to talk about her modern 19th-century novel, where she\u2019s been for the last few years, what we often take for granted when it comes to women\u2019s lives, the craft of writing, her literary influences, what\u2019s next for her and much more with Poured Over\u2019s host, Miwa Messer, live from our flagship store at Union Square in New York City. And we end this episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and Becky.
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Featured Books (episode):
Fellowship Point\xa0by Alice Elliott Dark
In the Gloaming\xa0by Alice Elliott Dark
The Hours\xa0by Michael Cunningham
Middlemarch\xa0by George Eliott
Matrix\xa0by Lauren Groff
Oh William!\xa0by Elizabeth Strout
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Featured Books (TBR Topoff):
Nightwoods\xa0by Charles Frazier
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Caf\xe9\xa0by Fannie Flagg
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A full transcript of this episode is available\xa0here.