Madeline Miller
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Jul
Madeline Miller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We also, as I think, Emily, you've pointed out, the text also recedes from us ever really knowing Penelope.
Right.
That it's hard to get inside her head and really hear her perspective.
I don't know, there's like a little bit of mist-like quality to her, I feel like.
She remains a mystery a little bit.
Talk about that, Emily.
And that was part of what I, it was really fun to get to do.
And this is, you know, what a novel can do because Penelope shows up in my novel and to get to have her have a story where it's not about what man she is under the protection of, you know, I wanted her to find something that was just about herself and not related to some man that, you know, she's triangulating with.
I also, Natalie, struggled to connect with Telemachus in the poem the first time.
And I think, you know, now I have.
But I think that what helped me connect with him was sort of two things, one of which is me bringing my novelist brain, but one of which is that he's incredibly young.
Right.
So seeing him kind of struggle with this moment of youth and that the Telemachus we see in that moment in the Odyssey may not be the Telemachus he is his whole life.
It's who he is at this moment of anxiety and immaturity, honestly.
And then the piece that sort of
maybe I added, was the fact that he was raised by his mother.
And Eumaeus, the enslaved swineherd, who's kind of a stand-in parental figure or fatherly figure, and very different perspectives than Odysseus.
And so I really connected with him as wanting this deep connection with his father.
But the parent who shaped him, if we're thinking from a psychological perspective, is Penelope.
Right.
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