Julian Barnes on ELIZABETH FINCH
\u201cThis is one of the great differences between journalism and literature, which I practice in. You write journalism in order for everything to be absolutely clear at the first reading \u2026 you write fiction in order to reflect the complexity of the world. And that complexity isn't necessarily grasped at first meeting.\u201d\xa0Elizabeth Finch\xa0is the latest (and deceptively slim) new novel from Julian Barnes, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel\xa0The Sense of an Ending. He joins us on the show to talk about cutting to the chase, unreliable narrators, the intersection of time and memory and history, translating Flaubert, his friendships with fellow Booker Prize-winners Anita Brookner and Ian McEwan, electric typewriters and Blackwing pencils, and more with Poured Over\u2019s host, Miwa Messer. And we finish this episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and Becky.
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Featured Books:
Elizabeth Finch\xa0by Julian Barnes
Flaubert\u2019s Parrot\xa0by Julian Barnes
Madame Bovary\xa0by Gustave Flaubert (translated by Frances Steegmuller
Madame Bovary\xa0by Gustave Flaubert (translated by Lydia Davis)
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Featured Books (TBR Topoff)
Hotel du Lac\xa0by Anita Brookner
Klara and the Sun\xa0by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays).
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A full transcript of this episode is available here.\xa0