Cassie McCullagh

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5,416 appearances 33 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2018 last heard 4d ago

Cassie McCullagh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And you call yourselves sensitive, sensitive artists.
It's really quite OTT.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, I was thinking of The World According to Garp when I was reading this and a few other more recent examples, maybe Franzen, but not quite at the intellectual level.
But it's quite a populist mainstream novel explaining big art concepts.
And so they are writ large like that.
There are goodies and baddies and there's craft versus art and lots and iterations of the self, the artist being naked to the world and then literally because there's a lot of life drawing in this.
Yeah.
I liked the attempt at doing it and I did find myself moved by what happens to the characters.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, yeah.
See, I got more and more generous towards it.
There's the asymptote.
It's called Contra Posto and it's by Dave Eggers.
Now to the writer Daniel Mason, a doctor and academic in the School of Psychiatry at Stanford University.
His novels include A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, The Winter Soldier and Northwoods, which we read here on the bookshelf in 2023.
A lot of apples, yeah.
I think that was a symbol, Kate, of America.
Yes.
So this new book is called Country People and the clue, I think, is in the title.
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