Beth Golay

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676 appearances 15 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 9 Jul

Beth Golay’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Marginalia · Virginia Evans on 'The Correspondent' · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

Here's our conversation.

Thank you so much for joining us.

And can you give our listeners a description of The Correspondent?

So how did you come up with the idea for Sybil?

Does she have an origin story?

Because I'm looking at you, our listeners cannot see you, but you are a very young woman.

And Sybil is in her 70s, almost 80, if I remember right.

So how did you as a young woman get into that mindset of an older woman?

And I guess, you know, back to the question, does she have an origin story for you?

I also have a Joyce and she reminded me a lot of her.

So Sybil experiences so much life, joys and heartbreaks alike, all, you know, throughout the last decade or so of her life, like you mentioned.

And I'm wondering, I guess this maybe is a question about craft.

Did you start with the idea of what Sybil's life looks like now and then move backward into like creating her backstory?

Did you start with only the letters she had written?

I mean, talk to me a little bit about your process.

You know, we start with this slice in time, but that's not where the letter writing starts for Sybil.

Can we talk about that?

Because as she explains about her career, the clerkship was my job.

The letters amount to who I am.

What's the importance of writing for Sybil?

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