Cassie McCullagh
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5,416 appearances
33 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2018
last heard 3d ago
Cassie McCullagh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So...
Yeah, I mean, he's got an incredible energy and output.
Yeah.
And a lot of it seems to be, Madeline, well, what's the word for it?
Because it's not a natural instinct for me, but it's, you know.
Like, for the better good of other humans.
Yeah, he seems to have, you know, the greater good as part of his main focus.
Yes.
And this is being heralded, I think, as a return to form for Dave Eggers.
Like it's been warmly received in the US in some significant places.
So that's interesting.
But the title, Madeline, Contra Posto...
It doesn't have bestseller written all over it to me, but it's a very interesting concept.
It's the style of standing that appears in art, in sculpture and painting, where it was a step into a more natural stance where there's the weight on one foot and perhaps a raised hip or shoulder, a more...
kind of gestural stance rather than a formal one, which appeared pretty much, I think, in, I don't know, 500 BC in Greece in the Western tradition.
Ah, yes.
And this is just beginning to touch on the central theme of the book.
Perhaps we should just describe the way it opens because it is very sweet.
There's this young boy whose name's actually Robert because he's got this awful stepfather who's also called Robert.
He chooses to allow others to call him Cricket, which is his nickname.
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