Bernadette Brennan
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419 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2018
last heard 29 May
Bernadette Brennan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But it's a female text in that her focus is on these female characters from the past and
The responsibility that Doreen Negrifa feels, and I know this from interviews that she's given, but also the narrator feels, is palpable and powerful and ethical and fantastic.
I am and I am much more of a fan of her non-fiction and of that particular trilogy than I am of her fiction, although I did actually enjoy August Blue.
I think Cost of Living is one of the most fantastic books I've read in a long time and I read it a few times.
Describe it for us.
Well, it is an autobiography.
It's about what a woman writer has to be prepared to sacrifice and to do in order to pursue her craft with, in a sense, no regrets but with no sentimentality and naming anything
the poverty, the dislocation, the family breakdown, the loneliness, the decisions that have to be made and the joy and the liberation of being creatively and physically and emotionally free.
I loved that series as well.
But what about you, BJ?
Well, the first thing to say is the cat being called It is very Gertrude Stein-ish.
That's actually very, very funny.
And I can see why she would call the cat It.
And I can see why she'd be exasperated at the thought of Bob.
That is just not on.
That's not Stein at all.
So Stein was a major figure in
Well, I say major figure.
She was convinced she was a major figure in Paris in the 1920s.
She kept her salons and anyone who was anyone wanted to be at Gertrude Stein's salons.
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