Geordie Williamson

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728 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2018 last heard 21 Aug

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The Bookshelf · Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets · 6 Nov 2020 podcast

And I agree with you in all the points that you're making.

But I do think that ultimately it is a book about love and respect.

It's about the lovers in a platonic, homosocial sense and the father figures in his life.

And it is a book about love.

I just loved the final section where he talks about the way in which Saul Bellow, for instance, was a phenomenon of love.

And he continues, he says, this is literature's dewy little secret.

Its energy is the energy of love.

All evocations of people, places, animals, objects, feelings, concepts, landscapes, seascapes and cloudscapes.

All such evocations are in spirit, amorous and celebratory.

Love gets put into the writing and love gets taken out.

And when you come across a passage like that, you might say you've got to put the other things aside just for a moment and say, well done, sir, well done.

Thank you.

It's been lovely to be with you all.

Thanks so much, Cassie.

And thanks, Kate.

Lovely to be with you.

Do your shelf a favour and keep on reading.

The Bookshelf · Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair, Eleanor Limprecht's The Passengers and reviewers Nicole Abadee, Frank Bongiorno and Geordie Williamson · 23 Mar 2018 podcast

Hi, Nicole.

Taking a first look at San Francisco comes a cargo of Australian GI brides and babies.

Wives rate high on the list of world exports.

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