Jeannette Winterson
A truly lovely interview with Jeanette Winterson over at Writers & Co this week. If you are interested at all in her work, it's highly recommended. I'm very interested in reading her latest book, a memoir of being adopted in a pentecostal family. Even the title hits a nerve, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? There are stories she tells in the interview, like the one about hiding books, that are familiar from my own life. As is her passionate retreat into books to try to better understand the world that is forbidden from her. I've long thought my connection to literature was in large part about educating myself on what it means to be human. And those of us brought up with the Bible as a big important book, tend to place undue importance on the written word.
http://www.cbc.ca/writersandcompany/episode/2012/02/05/jeanette-winterson-interview/
This spring also brings two titles from two of my other favorite authors. A.S. Byatt has Ragnarok about THAT war (and you know I'm going to read it.)
And Esther Freud has a new one called Lucky Break about her life in the theatre. Yes, she is related to THAT Freud and is daughter of painter Lucian Freud, author of Hideous Kinky, but it was her book The Sea House, which caught me in a moment. Flawed, but with a lot of potential. She's one to watch.
I'm a little behind with Weldon (Step-mother's Diary really needed to be a short story and Chalcot Crescent read like it was written by a cranky old person, which I suppose it was.)
But while I was listening to the Winterson interview (and assembling this list) I kept thinking, "these are my people."
http://www.cbc.ca/writersandcompany/episode/2012/02/05/jeanette-winterson-interview/
This spring also brings two titles from two of my other favorite authors. A.S. Byatt has Ragnarok about THAT war (and you know I'm going to read it.)
And Esther Freud has a new one called Lucky Break about her life in the theatre. Yes, she is related to THAT Freud and is daughter of painter Lucian Freud, author of Hideous Kinky, but it was her book The Sea House, which caught me in a moment. Flawed, but with a lot of potential. She's one to watch.
I'm a little behind with Weldon (Step-mother's Diary really needed to be a short story and Chalcot Crescent read like it was written by a cranky old person, which I suppose it was.)
But while I was listening to the Winterson interview (and assembling this list) I kept thinking, "these are my people."