![]() But nonetheless, it has a shape, a beginning and an end, which other mythic structures don’t seem to have. “It’s probably reverse-engineered by Hesiod and Homer and the later poets, obviously. … I just followed the trail of my own curiosity.”Īlso this week, we revisit the actor and writer Stephen Fry’s 2020 conversation with the host Pamela Paul, in which he discussed topics including Oscar Wilde, Fry’s own love of language and his book “Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined.” “It’s a miraculous thing about Greek mythology that there is a timeline and a chronology,” Fry says. And I loved then taking that person that we had seen peripherally and showing us that person’s inner life in a really immediate way,” she says. ![]() We see people and they seem to be easily categorizable - sometimes they seem like types. That year she appeared on the podcast and told the host Sam Tanenhaus how she had gone about organizing the book’s centrifugal structure: “What I was really interested in was trying to move through time and work with the difference between private and public. Jennifer Egan’s latest novel, “The Candy House,” is a follow-up to her Pulitzer-winning novel “A Visit From the Goon Squad,” which came out in 2010. ![]() This week’s segments first appeared in 20, respectively. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to Listenįor the next few months, we’re sharing some of our favorite conversations from the podcast’s archives. ![]()
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