Eleanor Catton on BIRNAM WOOD
\u201cI'm interested in how deceptions can make you feel more of yourself or can unlock something in you that you didn't know you had.\u201d
Eleanor Catton, Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries, is back with Birnam Wood \u2014 part eco-thriller, part social and political satire, wholly insightful. This propulsive novel is prescient, timely, and all-too relatable in our present day. Catton joins us in conversation about creating her characters, Shakespeare\u2019s use of prophecy and power, how the story was influenced by Jane Austen\u2019s Emma and more with Poured Over host, Miwa Messer. Listen after the episode for a TBR Topoff from Marc and Madyson.\xa0\xa0
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Featured Books (Episode):\xa0
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton\xa0
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton\xa0
Macbeth by William Shakespeare\xa0
We are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins\xa0
Emma by Jane Austen\xa0\xa0
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark\xa0\xa0
On Writing by Stephen King\xa0
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Featured Books (TBR Topoff):\xa0
The Appeal by Janice Hallett\xa0
Wilder Girls by Rory Power\xa0
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