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Claire Messud has long wanted to write a novel inspired by her family's history in Algeria, thanks to a handwritten memoir, more than 1,500 pages long, penned by her paternal grandfather. It was rich with stories and history and photos about her ancestors, who were born in French Algeria but then expelled from their homes in 1962 when Algeria won its independence.Her new novel, “This Strange Eventful History,” was inspired by that personal past. It sprawls across generations, geography and time, moving from 1940 to 2010, and across multiple points of view.In fact, MPR News host Kerri Miller says the way Messud plays with time is one of the vital threads of the book — and Messud admits time is almost a character in the novel. “The past informs the present,” she says. “People's dreams and hopes for the future inform the present, and in a funny way, the ghosts of the past — the people who are no longer there but whose voices swirl around in our head — make sure the past is always with us.”Join Miller and Messud on this week's Big Books and Bold Ideas to take a journey into memory, time and the longing for home. Guest: Claire Messud's novels includes “The Emperor's Children” and “The Woman Upstairs.” Her new novel is “This Strange Eventful History.” Subscribe to Big Books and Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS or anywhere you get your podcasts.Subscribe to the Thread newsletter for the latest book and author news and must-read recommendations.

Claire Messud discusses her new novel, This Strange Eventful History (Norton, May 14). Kirkus: “A family rides the waves of current events and personal conflicts across three generations….Brilliant and heart-wrenching; Messud is one of contemporary literature's best” (starred review). Then our editors share their top picks in books for the week.

Claire Messud's This Strange Eventful History is a sweeping, multigenerational family saga told over the course of 70 years. Messud joins us to talk about her family connection to the novel, identity and colonialism, the concept of home and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over. We end this episode with TBR Top Off book recommendations from Marc and Donald.  This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.                      New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.            Featured Books (Episode):  This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud  We Don't Know Ourselves by Fintan O'Toole  Featured Books (TBR Top Off):  The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor  The Guest Book by Sarah Blake 

This week, American Canadian novelist Claire Messud. Throughout her career and in her new book, This Strange Eventful History, one of TIME's most anticipated of 2024, Messud draws on her own family's history, especially that of her French Algerian father. In 2001 she spoke with Eleanor about her novel The Last Life, which traces three generations of a French Algerian family from the perspective of a teenage girl. To conclude the program, Messud reads a chapter from the novel.

Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf are joined by celebrated writer Claire Messud, the author of six works of fiction including the highly-acclaimed bestseller The Emperor's Children. Messud's latest novel is This Strange Eventful History, which follows the Cassars, a Pied-Noir family from Algeria, who find themselves constantly displaced by the changing tides of history, first by World War II and then by Algerian independence. Partly based on her own family's story, the book traces the story of each family member, across three generations, as they encounter the world as well as their own personal joys and tragedies. The novel is, of course, about history, both personal and global, as well as the ways people build homes outide of their homelands.

Across seven decades, Claire Messud's novel This Strange Eventful History follows generations of a family from a colonized Algeria to far stretches of the world after the country's independence, always grappling with the idea of identity and belonging and political upheaval. In today's episode, Messud speaks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about how she took inspiration from her own grandparents' story, and how looking back at their past sparked a desire in her to chronicle the world she grew up in for her own kids. To listen to Book of the Day sponsor-free and support NPR's book coverage, sign up for Book of the Day+ at plus.npr.org/bookoftheday Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Acclaimed author Claire Messud joins us to discuss her latest novel,This Strange Eventful History, a family drama in part based on her own family's history following Algerian independence. Critics are calling it some of her best work. Messud is speaking tonight with Jennifer Egan at the Center for Fiction.

In conversation with Laura McGrath, Assistant Professor of English at Temple University ''Among our greatest contemporary writers'' (The Miami Herald), Claire Messud is the author of The Emperor's Children, a cutting portrait of life among Manhattan's junior intelligentsia that was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Her other acclaimed and bestselling novels include When the World Was Steady, The Hunters, The Last Life, The Woman Upstairs, and The Burning Girl. A PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, the recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe fellowships, and the winner of the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Messud teaches writing at Harvard University. Named one of the most anticipated books of 2024 by The Guardian, Oprah Daily, and New York magazine, This Strange Eventful History follows the seven-decade arc of an itinerant French Algerian colonial family born on the wrong side of history and forced to reckon with their interpersonal and larger political legacies. Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep our podcasts free for everyone. THANK YOU! (recorded 5/15/2024)

Author Claire Messud joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about how the lines between autobiography and fiction blur, and the ways that families—real and imagined—hide their true histories. Messud's new novel, This Strange Eventful History, out Tuesday, draws on her own family's complex past, including their connections to French colonialism in Algeria. Messud talks about using her grandfather's 1,500-page handwritten memoir as source material, creating a story that spans the globe, how ordinary lives intersect with history, and including a character interested in questioning, editing, translating, and transforming family tales into a story for a different audience, as writers often do. She reads from the novel. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This episode of the podcast was produced by Anne Kniggendorf and Amanda Trout. Claire Messud This Strange Eventful History The Last Life The Woman Upstairs The Emperor's Children The Burning Girl Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write A Dream Life The Hunters Others: France in Algeria The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter Elias Canetti Alice Munro Ulysses by James Joyce In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 4, Episode 7, Claire Messud and Brendan O'Meara on Creative Nonfiction in an Era of ‘Fake News' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Claire Messud is the author of A Dream Life, available from Tablo Tales. Messud is the author of seven works of fiction, including the New York Times bestsellers The Emperor's Children and The Burning Girl, and a new book of essays, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write. She is a recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  YouTube Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan are joined by novelist and essayist Claire Messud and journalist Brendan O'Meara. First, Messud discusses her new book of essays, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write, and the difficulties of grasping the facts when we're bombarded with so much information daily. Then, O'Meara shares craft insights from his interviews for The Creative Nonfiction podcast and discusses the connections between newsrooms and literary nonfiction. He also previews his memoir-in-progress about his father. To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. And check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub's Virtual Book Channel and Fiction/Non/Fiction's YouTube Channel. This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope. Selected readings: Claire Messud Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write The Emperor's Children The Burning Girl When the World Was Steady The Woman Upstairs The Hunters The Last Life Brendan O'Meara Six Weeks in Saratoga: How Three-Year-Old Filly Rachel Alexandra Beat the Boys and Became Horse of the Year The Creative Nonfiction Podcast Episode 60—The Godfather of Creative Nonfiction: Lee Gutkind Episode 99—David Grann on 'The Killers of the Flower Moon' and Why Every Story is a Struggle Episode 121—Susan Orlean on Pacing, Structure, and 'The Library Book' Episode 227: The Futility of Reassurance and Being on the Hook with Seth Godin “Isolation,” audio magazine   Others: Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio The Plague by Albert Camus War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Selected Writings of Paul Valéry Continental Drift by Russell Banks NW by Zadie Smith Another Country by James Baldwin The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald The Company You Keep by Neil Gordon Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates Bronwen Dickey David Carr Sisters in Hate by Seyward Darby The Living and the Dead: War, Friendship and the Battles That Never End by Brian Mockenhaupt The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm The Heart and Other Monsters by Rose Andersen Jean Guerrero “Host of ‘The Daily' Clouds ‘N.Y. Times' Effort To Restore Trust After ‘Caliphate'” by David Folkenflik, NPR Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Messud 女士是小說和雜文作者。她提供的畢業典禮致詞標題是《內心朝聖的時刻》。這個名字耐人尋味，發人深省。 朝聖一般指的是旅行前往聖地。各宗教都有自己的聖地。“朝聖”本身就有強烈的宗教含義。 “面對”2020年的畢業生，女作家喊出了心聲：你們這段時間，聽到的都是“不”字：不能參加畢業典禮，不再有畢業舞會，不可以聚會，不要安排畢業旅行。 當你待在家中的時候，外面院子裡野兔出來歡跳，鳥兒在唱歌，以往繁忙的公路上，車輛的噪音大大減少。 我們該怎麼辦？波斯詩人哈菲茲 Hafiz 寫過這樣的句子：我渴望去一次大型的朝聖，於是我在家中靜坐三天。孩子們，在你們成長的過程中，生活處在不斷運動中，而且速度越來越快，壓力越來越大。 “非物質享樂“的時間越來越少。 和朋友一起坐在屋外，讓風輕撫你的皮膚，不要講話，閉上眼睛傾聽；閱讀一部長篇世界名著，慢慢欣賞一首詩歌。這段時間，應該是一個大型的內心朝聖機會...這是一個可以展開的話題。

Daniel Birnbaum har skrivit en roman om sin skugglike farfar, vi guidar till kompositören Arvo Pärts inre rum, recenserar Claire Messuds nya roman och hör en essä om konsten att släppa gammal kärlek I dag öppnar Arvo Pärt Centret i Laulasmaa i Estland. Pärt är inte bara landets störste kulturpersonlighet, han är också en av världens mest kända kompositörer av konstmusik. "Helst ska man komma till centret till fots", säger chefen Anu Kivilo till P1 Kultur. I studion också dramatikern Magnus Lindman som guidar till Arvo Pärts värld. Moderna Museets avgående chef Daniel Birnbaum har skrivit en roman som kretsar kring hans gåtfulle farfar. "Dr B" handlar om en tyskjudisk journalist som under andra världskriget flyr till Stockholm för att därifrån bland annat hjälpa brittiska spioner att sprida propaganda i Tyskland. Daniel Birnbaum är gäst i P1 Kultur. Och så har Lina Kalmteg läst den amerikanska författaren Claire Messuds senaste roman "Den brinnande flickan". Messud nådde många svenska läsare med hyllade "Kvinnan på övervåningen", en feministisk roman med en ursinnig berättare. Är "Den brinnande flickan" en lika upphetsande upplevelse? Dagens OBS-essä handlar om konsten att sluta knarka kärlek. "Uppbrott och separationer är smärtsamma, psykologiskt och biologiskt, men vi behöver lära oss att förstå att de tillhör livets grundbultar", säger frilansjournalisten Anna Thulin i dagens essä. Dessutom: onsdag betyder nytt avsnitt av Bergmanpodden! Idag väntar den tjugosjunde filmen i Ingmar Bergmans egen regi: "Persona". Full pott rakt av i betygsnämnden. Gunnar Bolin berättar vad som väntar hugade lyssnare. Programledare: Måns Hirschfeldt Producent: Anna Tullberg

Watch the video here. ''A master of perpetual storytelling'' (The New Yorker), Salman Rushdie is the author of a dozen novels, including Shame, The Satanic Verses, and Midnight's Children, winner of the Booker Prize in 1981 and the ''Booker of Bookers'' Prize in 1993. His other works include a short story collection, East, West, and four works of nonfiction, including the memoir Joseph Anton, which chronicles his time in hiding during the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa calling for his death. Rushdie's latest novel finds an enigmatic billionaire taking up residence in an exclusive Greenwich Village enclave. ''Adept at evoking complex psychological territory'' (The New Yorker), Claire Messud is the author of The Emperor's Children, a cutting portrait of life among Manhattan's junior intelligentsia that was long-listed for the Booker Prize. She is a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and a recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe fellowships, and her work has been thrice counted among the New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Her other novels include When the World Was Steady, The Hunters, The Last Life, and The Woman Upstairs. In The Burning Girl, Messud tells of two inseparable friends who find their bond tested by adolescence. (recorded 9/28/2017)

The Burning Girl – Claire Messud – W.W. Norton – Hardcover – 9780393635027 – 256 pages – $25.95 – ebook versions available at lower prices – August 20, 2017 (paperback forthcoming June 5, 2018) The Burning Girl is an extraordinary novel. Messud, whose work and reputation I knew of, but had never read before discovering […]

Clare Messud on her latest novels and theatrical memoirs.

Author Claire Messud and host Jason Gots talk about childhood, growing up, and how cultures contain the things that scare them most. Also, how to give and receive good criticism on creative writing in this, Big Think's latest brain-fertilizing podcast. Claire Messud is the author of seven novels, including The Woman Upstairs and The Emperor’s Children. Messud has been awarded an Addison Metcalf award and the Straus Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among many other literary honors. The New Yorker calls her “adept at evoking complex psychological territory”, which is most definitely the case in her latest novel, The Burning Girl, about the tortuous course of a childhood friendship. About Think Again: Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. Since 2015, the Think Again podcast has been taking us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives. Surprise clips from our video interview archives in this episode: Russell Simmons on the (then) presidential candidacy of Donald Trump, Alan Alda on communication and connection Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Claire Messud is the author of six novels and one book of novellas including The Woman Upstairs, When the World Was Steady, THe Last Life, and The Emperor's Children, which was a New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post Best Book of the Year. Messud has been awarded Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and children. Her latest novel is called The Burning Girl. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug. 30, 2014. Claire Messud appears at the 2014 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Claire Messud made her noteworthy debut as a novelist with "When the World Was Steady," which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner award. 'The Emperor's Children," published in 2006, was a New York Times best-seller and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her most recent novel is her sixth, "The Woman Upstairs" (Vintage/Random House). Messud has taught creative writing at the University of Maryland, Kenyon College, Amherst College and Johns Hopkins University. She also teaches a course in literary traditions at Hunter College. Her work has appeared in The New York Review of Books. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6399

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