Poured Over Double Shot: Colm Toibin and Tom Crewe
This Double Shot episode features two authors, one familiar and one who soon will be, each tackling similar themes. Through fiction and essays these authors explore social politics and sexual freedom \u2014 listen in as both talk separately with Poured Over\u2019s host, Miwa Messer.\xa0And we end this episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and Madyson.
A Guest at the Feast is a collection of essays by Colm T\xf3ib\xedn on topics ranging from his own cancer diagnosis, how reading the diaries of Thomas Mann led to the creation of The Magician (out in paperback now), the works of Marilynne Robinson and more. T\xf3ib\xedn joins us to talk about making private stories public, the lives of Popes and what he\u2019s working on next.\xa0\xa0
Tom Crewe\u2019s debut novel, The New Life, shows us two marriages and two affairs that buck tradition and showcases the struggles of lives deemed unconventional in 19th century London. Crewe talks with us about the reality of being gay in the 1800s, social class in Victorian England and the authors that have influenced him.\xa0\xa0
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Featured Books (Episode):\xa0
A Guest at the Feast by Colm T\xf3ib\xedn\xa0
The Magician by Colm T\xf3ib\xedn\xa0\xa0
Brooklyn by Colm T\xf3ib\xedn\xa0
Washington Square by Henry James\xa0
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann\xa0
The New Life by Tom Crewe\xa0
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Featured Books (TBR Topoff):\xa0\xa0
Homo Irrealis by Andr\xe9 Aciman\xa0\xa0
The Collected Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde\xa0
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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.\xa0