Tag: Narrator
Zombie History Stalks Ukraine – The Atlantic
The Ukrainian writer Tanja Maljartschuk’s novel Forgottenness broods upon what I’d call zombie history. There are other terms for inherited memory of catastrophic events experienced by one’s forebears, such as intergenerational transmission of trauma and postmemory. But the past in this novel rises from the grave and takes possession of the bodies of the living. Memories resurface as tics, gestures, obsessions—the condensations of meaning that Freud called neurotic symptoms. Sometimes these show up in the personally traumatized. Much
Komikerin Aparna Nancherla spricht im neuen Buch „Unreliable Narrator“ über psychische Gesundheit
Der psychische Gesundheitszustand der Komikerin verschlechterte sich so sehr, dass sie ihre Auftritte abbrechen musste. Jetzt ist sie zurückgekehrt.
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The Books Briefing: Ann Patchett
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The last book I read may be the perfect summer novel, one that almost seems engineered to hit every pleasure center in the brain: Ingredients include a feel-good romance, a bucolic setting, a narrator slowly spilling a story full of bittersweet nostalgia under a beating sun, afternoon swims in a lake, and lots of ripening fruit.
Nine Funny Books That Will Actually Make You Laugh
The phrase serious literature comes with an unfortunate double meaning. When we call books serious, we mean they are satisfying, well written, and worthy of consideration. But we also use serious as an antonym for funny, which can mislead us into assuming that a good book shouldn’t make us laugh. That’s too bad, because humor is a bona fide literary effect, right up there with tragedy, suspense, and profundity—just as much a part of the author’s toolbox but a
How a Great Audiobook Narrator Finds Her Voices
Several years ago, the writer N. K. Jemisin got an e-mail from the voice actor Robin Miles. Miles had just been hired to narrate the audiobook of Jemisin’s new novel, “The Fifth Season,” about the inhabitants of a continent called the Stillness, and she had some questions. How do Sanzeds, midlatters, and Eastern Coasters usually speak? How do you pronounce Essun, Damaya, and Tonkee? “She wanted to know exactly what kind of accents to use at certain places, and where