It makes me so happy to hear Eleanor Wachtel’s voice as the interviewer here. She’s one of the finest interviewers of writers around (has interviewed Toibin on a few occasions), and sorely missed after her retirement from the CBC. Eleanor, I’m glad to hear you’re still at it :-)
What an excellent surprise to hear Eleanor Wachtel's iconic voice, she's the best. Writers and Company is so missed, love to hear her here with the most excellent Colm Toibin!
This is very interesting, especially to hear the subtlety and honesty of his insights about it being actually 'disgusting' to write publicly about such delicate, private things from his own family experience. I remember reading 'The Heather Blazing' while on a walking holiday in Kerry and found myself squirming and repelled for exactly this reason. My impulse was to take the book with me up a Kerry mountain and leave it in the fresh air under a rock. So it's very encouraging to discover that he has had these same moral reservations. Maybe I'll try reading some more of his work!
What kind of stories or writing do you like ? That would give us a better idea of what books to direct you towards. So if you want to get back to us with some notes ... In the meantime, or in case you don't have an opinion yet I'm going to toss out various titles. Overstory by Richard Powers All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Dune by Frank Herbert The Life of Pi by Yann Martel 1984 by George Orwell 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Many of these are so popular they're translated into movies. Although the books are IMO better than any of the movies, which are themselves all very well made. Hope you find something here to enjoy on your reading adventures.
Something with universal appeal. Hemingway. Old Man and the Sea. Françoise Sagan. Bonjour Tristesse. In English.. Or anything by Jack Higgins! He writes adventures. Or go into a library .... and ask the library staff to pick out a few.
Sorry. I don't take any writer seriously if he hasn't said a single word on Israel's genocide in Gaza which has already left 50.000 dead, 125.000 wounded and 12.000 still beneath the rubble...
@@MorePlausible As a reader I don't think I have any tyrannical demands. My demand is only moral. The real tyrannical demand is to ask people to remain silent on the face of Israel's brutal actions against Palestinian civilians. To my mind any decent person, whether he/she is a writer or not should automatically be against Israel's genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. No literary accomplishement is more important than the life of an innocent child in Gaza...
It makes me so happy to hear Eleanor Wachtel’s voice as the interviewer here. She’s one of the finest interviewers of writers around (has interviewed Toibin on a few occasions), and sorely missed after her retirement from the CBC. Eleanor, I’m glad to hear you’re still at it :-)
How extraordinarily self-aware and candid he is about his relationship with his work
What an excellent surprise to hear Eleanor Wachtel's iconic voice, she's the best. Writers and Company is so missed, love to hear her here with the most excellent Colm Toibin!
This is very interesting, especially to hear the subtlety and honesty of his insights about it being actually 'disgusting' to write publicly about such delicate, private things from his own family experience. I remember reading 'The Heather Blazing' while on a walking holiday in Kerry and found myself squirming and repelled for exactly this reason. My impulse was to take the book with me up a Kerry mountain and leave it in the fresh air under a rock. So it's very encouraging to discover that he has had these same moral reservations. Maybe I'll try reading some more of his work!
i like the man's style, i might remember him later, good talk.
His cadence is like an Irish Tarantino
You're not wrong there, my son.
Thx4 post.. 🙏♥️🕊🤲
Colm Toibin fabulous universal
authenticity
I know, sincerity, humility and intelligence wrapped up in kindly face.
Charming episode. Beautiful.
So delighted to hear the Queen of Canadian Radio, Eleanor Wachtel, interviewing again!
The morality point is something I've thought about a lot. My mothers death was included in my cousins novel.
Is it me or does this guy look like a really good AI video?
I think it’s the blurred background in particular that adds to that effect. He’s an amazing Irish writer all the same.
thank you from India .Can somebody suggest me any novel to start my reading career .i am aged 31 right now .
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann?
Colm Toibin’s The Master is a masterful novel. I re-read it every couple of years.
What kind of stories or writing do you like ? That would give us a better idea of what books to direct you towards. So if you want to get back to us with some notes ...
In the meantime, or in case you don't have an opinion yet I'm going to toss out various titles.
Overstory by Richard Powers
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
1984 by George Orwell
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Many of these are so popular they're translated into movies.
Although the books are IMO better than any of the movies, which are themselves all very well made.
Hope you find something here to enjoy on your reading adventures.
Something with universal appeal.
Hemingway. Old Man and the Sea.
Françoise Sagan. Bonjour Tristesse. In English..
Or anything by Jack Higgins! He writes adventures.
Or go into a library .... and ask the library staff to pick out a few.
That was some interesting word salad.
wow, i’m so happy i stopped to watch this.
Sorry. I don't take any writer seriously if he hasn't said a single word on Israel's genocide in Gaza which has already left 50.000 dead, 125.000 wounded and 12.000 still beneath the rubble...
You are extraordinarily tyrannical to demand all writers answer to your political preferences. Who are you to demand such a thing?
@@MorePlausible As a reader I don't think I have any tyrannical demands. My demand is only moral. The real tyrannical demand is to ask people to remain silent on the face of Israel's brutal actions against Palestinian civilians. To my mind any decent person, whether he/she is a writer or not should automatically be against Israel's genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. No literary accomplishement is more important than the life of an innocent child in Gaza...