Claire Keegan

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550 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 21 Jun

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The Oprah Podcast · Claire Keegan: “Small Things Like These”| Oprah’s Book Club · 3 Dec 2024 podcast

I actually do think that's brilliant. Don't you guys think? I think being upset is really important for your development. So you can think about what others go through.

Well, I think then you're so sad that you're damaged. You've hardened. That's the hardness I was talking about earlier. Yes. You get hurt and get hard.

Don't you think, though, it's also kind of comical that you'd be afraid to take a girl home on Christmas Eve? That looking back for me now looking back, why would anybody not do that? Is also comical.

I agree. I mean, I know I'm not, I'm not disagreeing with you, but what I'm saying is. How's he going to live in that town?

I agree. I think it's all bad.

Yeah. I just think looking back now, how afraid people were of the church.

Yeah, people have been silent for so long they don't know how to find the words now. But the Catholic Church has collapsed in Ireland. People just don't go, people don't mind, people don't worry. And that's interesting.

I would hope so.

It's already opened up in Ireland to a great extent. It really has. But I'm just glad that other people in other parts of the world can hear about it and think about it. And it's lovely really to be a novelist or a short story writer because you don't have to pretend you work for the tourist board. It's nice to be a critic of your own society and get that chance. Yeah, yeah.

Not at all. I've never worried about that. I've always written what matters to me. And if you don't like it, well, just go find and read another book.

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