267 Great Scot! The 6 Best Scottish Writers (with Margot Livesey)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Fan favorite Margot Livesey returns to the History of Literature to discuss her new novel, The Boy in the Field, and to help Jacke choose the greatest writers in Scotland's history. MARGOT LIVESEY is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Flight of Gemma Hardy, The House on Fortune Street, Banishing Verona, Eva Moves the Furniture, The Missing World, Criminals, and Homework. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Vogue, and the Atlantic, and she is the recipient of grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. The House on Fortune Street won the 2009 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Born in Scotland, Livesey currently lives in the Boston area and is a professor of fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. New!!! Looking for an easy to way to buy Jacke a coffee? Now you can at paypal.me/jackewilson. Your generosity is much appreciated! The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. *** 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.
0:07.0	Hello, three siblings encounter a body in a field. What happens to them next?
0:15.0	It's a gorgeously rich scenario for a novel, especially when it's in the hands of a gifted novelist,
0:21.0	such as today's guest, Margot Livesey.
0:25.0	We'll be talking to Margot about her new novel called The Boy in the Field.
0:28.8	And then in a special bonus draft, she's going to help us choose the greatest writers in Scotland's history.
0:36.0	That's all coming up today on the history of literature. Oh. Okay, here we go. Hello everyone, I'm Jack Wilson. I'm so glad you could join me today.
1:00.0	It's a tough day here in America, usual that seems to be the norm now dark skies after dark skies
1:07.0	So let's look for our ray of sunshine and here we go. We have one. Margot Livesi is here.
1:13.4	She's back.
1:14.9	She's been on the podcast before.
1:16.4	She's Mrs. Jack Wilson's favorite guest,
1:19.0	which I probably shouldn't say out loud.
1:21.3	I mean, we've had some close friends of Mrs Jack
1:24.4	Wilson's on here too, but she likes Margot. And so I keep begging Margot to
1:29.9	return because it's nice to have my wife listen to the podcast once in a while.
1:34.4	Let her know that I'm not just chanting all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy a
1:40.7	million times into the microphone.
1:43.8	And I just kind of creeped myself out with that, which makes me think that October must
1:47.8	be around the corner.
1:49.4	We are going to go all out for October this year that month of harvest and death and grim skies and
1:56.5	goblins we're going to have Edgar Allan Poe as our Thursday theme.
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