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Best podcasts about kirsty gunn

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RNZ: Saturday Morning
Kirsty Gunn: looking into the troubled human heart

RNZ: Saturday Morning

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2024 22:03


Kirsty Gunn, award-winning writer and professor in creative writing on her new collection of thirteen dark short stories.

RNZ: Nine To Noon
Book review: Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn

RNZ: Nine To Noon

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2024 5:00


Cynthia Morahan reviews Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn published by Otago University Press.

Arts & Ideas
Essay writing

Arts & Ideas

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2024 45:20


Montaigne's literary self portraits led to him popularising the Essay form in the mid 1500s. With online articles, long reads in newspapers and magazines and a number of publishing houses interested in promoting essays and reprinting authors, Rana Mitter and guests look at what makes a good Essay drawing on examples from the past and present. Rana's guests are the author Kirsty Gunn; the essayist Chris Arthur, author of Hidden Cargoes; Paul Lay, Senior Editor at Engelsberg Ideas and a former editor of History Today and Emma Claussen is a lecturer in French at Trinity College, University of Cambridge who studies the work of Montaigne.Producer: Ruth WattsIn the Free Thinking archives you can find a collection of episodes available as Arts and Ideas podcasts exploring Prose, Poetry and Drama including discussions about libraries, the history of paper, and what makes a good lecture

Freedom, Books, Flowers & the Moon
Stories That Simply Unfold

Freedom, Books, Flowers & the Moon

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2023 17:25


Kirsty Gunn considers Katherine Mansfield's place in the literary canon.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/all-sorts-of-lives-katherine-mansfield-claire-harman-book-review-kirsty-gunn/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Arts & Ideas
Katherine Mansfield & Mavis Gallant

Arts & Ideas

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2023 44:50


Insecurity, sexuality and bliss are amongst the topics explored in the short stories of Katherine Mansfield (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923). Having left a New Zealand suburb she came to England aged 19 and made friends with the Bloomsbury set, meeting writers like Virginia Woolf and DH Lawrence. A new biography by Claire Harman uses ten stories to tell the story of Mansfield's life and writing. One of her admirers was the Canadian author Mavis Gallant (11 August 1922 – 18 February 2014) who spent much of her writing life in France. Laurence Scott and Kirsty Gunn join Claire Harman and Shahidha Bari to explore what these authors have to tell us about the art of short story writing. Claire Harman's biography is called All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the art of risking everything Kirsty Gunn is the author of My Katherine Mansfield project a long essay. Her own writing includes a collection of stories Infidelities and her latest novel Caroline's Bikini Laurence Scott is the author of Picnic, Comma, Lightning. Producer: Ruth Watts On the Free Thinking programme website you can find a collection of discussions about Prose, Poetry and Drama https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p047v6vh and a collection exploring Modernism around the World https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07p3nxh

Selected Shorts
Too Hot For Radio: Kirsty Gunn "Dangerous Dog"

Selected Shorts

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2021 35:43


Read by actress Kirstin Vangsness, this Jane Eyre fan fiction imagines Mr. Rochester as a pit bull. After the story, host Aparna Nancherla talks to Jane Eyre expert, author Patricia Park, about the enduring allure of Charlotte Brontë's novel. Join and give!: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/symphonyspacenyc?code=Splashpage See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Word Christchurch Festival
An Hour With Vincent O'Sullivan

Word Christchurch Festival

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2021 56:48


30 October 2020 | WORD Christchurch Spring Festival Poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright, and librettist, Vincent O’Sullivan is one of our most acclaimed and versatile writers. He was New Zealand’s Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015 and, in Kirsty Gunn’s words, ‘continues to have a prominent ongoing role in the public literary life of this country, helping us to press at our boundaries, see the close at hand as well as further horizons’. With a rich and rewarding recent novel (All This By Chance) and a volume of selected short stories, as well as a biography of Ralph Hotere and a forthcoming poetry collection, there will be much to talk about with chair Paul Millar.

London Review Bookshop Podcasts
Kirsty Gunn and Max Porter: Caroline’s Bikini

London Review Bookshop Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2020 57:54


Novelist and essayist Kirsty Gunn’s latest novel Caroline’s Bikini is a powerful retelling of one of the oldest stories in western literature – that of unrequited love. In a series of conversations in West London bars, Gunn unravels the passion of financier Evan Gordonstone for the glamorous Caroline Beresford, an unravelling that brings Gordonstone to the brink of destruction. Kirsty Gunn is the author of six works of fiction and several essay collections, and currently teaches creative writing at the University of Dundee. She read from her latest book, and talked about it with Max Porter, author of Lanny. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Radio Gorgeous
Kirsty Gunn, Caroline's Bikini with Donna Freed AUTHOR of the Week on Radio Gorgeous

Radio Gorgeous

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2018 25:35


Kirsty Gunn rips it up and starts again with each of her books, wrenching original novels out of her imagination. Her latest, a comedy about the impossible perfection of unrequited love, leaves as much out as in… much like a bikini! www.kirsty-gunn.com #RadioGorgeous #CarolinesBikini #ComedyNovel

Arts & Ideas
Rethinking Tradition

Arts & Ideas

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2018 44:29


Philip Dodd is joined by Roger Scruton, Haroon Mirza, Kevin Davey and Kirsty Gunn to explore writing, modernism and experiment from T. S. Eliot onwards. Roger Scruton's books include 'How to be a Conservative' and 'England: An Elegy'. His most recent is 'Where We Are'. Kevin Davey's novel 'Playing Possum' was shortlisted for the 2017 Goldsmiths Prize - a prize for writing which embodies the spirit of invention Kirsty Gunn is the author of novels including 'The Big Music' and 'The Boy and the Sea'Haroon Miza has new work at the Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne from 20th January-8th April Producer: Debbie Kilbride Main Image: L-R: Kevin Davey, Haroon Mirza, Kirsty Gunn, Roger Scruton and presenter Philip Dodd.

London Review Bookshop Podcasts
Making It Up: Kirsty Gunn and Deborah Levy

London Review Bookshop Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2015 60:44


Short stories don't have to be like short stories. They can be experiences, visitations, slices of events or part revelations of a truth or a lie. Kirsty Gunn and Deborah Levy joined us at the Bookshop to discuss how they go about making up their own short fiction and the influence of modernism in their recent collections, Infidelities and Black Vodka. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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London Review Bookshop Podcasts
The Novel; A Biography: Michael Schmidt and Michael Wood

London Review Bookshop Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2014 46:20


Quoting from the letters, diaries, reviews, and essays of novelists and drawing on their biographies, Schmidt’s The Novel – A Biography (Harvard) invites us into the creative dialogues between authors and between books, and suggests how these dialogues have shaped the development of the novel in English. Michael Schmidt spoke with Michael Wood, author and regular contributor to the London Review of Books, in a conversation chaired by novelist Kirsty Gunn. The discussion covered the 13-year process of writing the book, the social function of the novel, an appalling misprint involving Martin Amis and favourite reads old and new. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Essay
Kirsty Gunn in Sutherland

The Essay

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2014 12:17


Five writers set out on foot to sample the transforming qualities of Spring. They report back with tales that are climatically confused - it could be warm or chilly out there ...4. Kirsty Gunn is in Sutherland, debating whether to ford the chilly River Brora on an afternoon hike.Producer Duncan Minshull.

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Book Talk
Bookmarked: Big Music, Bigger Universe

Book Talk

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2013 27:01


On this edition of Bookmarked Ryan Van Winkle goes in search of essential interviews from the world of books and comes back with two gems - writer Kirsty Gunn talking about the long long process of development and writing of her just-published novel The Big Music, and TV broadcaster and author of A Down to Earth Guide to the Cosmos Mark Thompson (pictured) talking about how he got into astronomy and why it's so fascinating.And nestling between these two interviews is newly-crowned Granta Young British Novelist Jenni Fagan reading her short story 'Impilo'. It contains some strong language and is not for the faint-hearted, but is a great example of new exciting writing happening right now. Contents:0:00  Introduction 0:53  Kirsty Gunn interview  8:09  Jenni Fagan reads 'Impilo'  22:03  Mark Thompson interview