133 The Hidden Machinery - Discovering the Secrets of Fiction (with Margot Livesey)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

Arts, History, Books

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Ever wonder how fiction works? Or what great literature can teach us about writing? Novelist Margot Livesey returns to the show for a discussion of her book The Hidden Machinery: Essays on Writing. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. Learn more about the show at historyofliterature.com or facebook.com/historyofliterature. Contact the host at jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com or @WriterJacke. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:10.0	Hello, I'm Jack Wilson.
0:12.0	Welcome to The History of Literature. Okay, here we go. We have a great show today.
0:23.0	Bargo Lipsi is back. Okay, here we go. We have a great show today.
0:33.1	Bar G-Libsy is back.
0:35.3	She's here to talk about her book,
0:36.9	The Hidden Machinery, Essays on Writing.
0:40.2	Folks, this is, this is life for someone like me who loves literature and wants literature to matter.
0:50.0	That's my deal, okay? That's my secret. I just want literature to matter. I want it to mean something.
0:57.7	And this book helps me see that it does and how it does what it does. It's like 200 and 300 pages of crack cocaine, literary crack.
1:11.0	You ingest it and the brain is suddenly on high alert.
1:15.0	I thought it might have a heart attack reading this book.
1:18.0	Just kidding.
1:20.0	Of course, exaggerating, it's a wonderful book.
1:22.0	It helps you see new things about the books that you know and love or maybe some that you haven't encountered yet.
1:29.0	It takes all these writers and books and feeds them into the perceptive mind of a career
1:35.5	novelist, an excellent novelist and writer Margot Livesey. Let me give you a taste of
1:40.8	the books contents. I'll leave through it as if we're here in a virtual bookstore.
1:46.2	But first, let's read an email from a listener to set the stage.
1:50.8	Oh, excuse me, we have someone knocking at the door here at the studio. Who's, who's, who's, who's?
1:57.0	Who is?
1:58.0	Hello, this is Edgar Allan Poe.
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