Claire Keegan
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550 appearances
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3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 21 Jun
Claire Keegan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You don't know until you're there.
You just don't know.
Well, I can't thank you enough for today and thank you so much for inviting me on.
What were you doing?
What were you doing?
Interfering.
Oh, sweet.
Well, he clearly loves you so much.
Well, thank you.
And thank you to all your readers.
And happy weekend to everybody.
Bye, Max.
Say goodbye.
Bye.
The Oprah Podcast · Claire Keegan: “Small Things Like These”| Oprah’s Book Club · 3 Dec 2024
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I think sadness actually makes you think about what life is like for others. I think being upset is really important so you can think about what others go through.
Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure.
No, he's a complete invention, not based on anyone I know. And I didn't even have a conversation with a cold man before or during or after writing this book. I just made him up. But I think the imagination, I think language is older and richer than we are. And when you start playing around with it, it gives you sometimes what you're looking for.
I started writing a short story about a boy who goes with his father to a Christian brother's boarding school to deliver a load of coal. And the boy, when he opens the coal house door, finds another boy just about his own age, locked inside. And his father bids him to just come on and lock the door. And I was really interested in what you would consider your father to be. If he told you that...
Yeah, if he'll do that to a boy just like you, and then why wouldn't he do it to you? And is it all right that he won't do it to you and he'll do it to somebody else? And then I thought, well, what am I going to do with that? I was interested in that, but what am I going to do with that? Because the child always is living at the mercy of who's minding him.
So there's nothing really the boy can do but carry it. So then my preoccupations shifted to what if it was the father's story. And it was a longer story. And it was the story of what the father does with that. Because he's an adult and he's a male.
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