905. Tana French

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Tana French is the author of the novel The Hunter, available from Viking Books. It is the official March pick of the Otherppl Book Club. Tana French is the New York Times bestselling author of eight previous books, including In the Woods, The Likeness, and The Searcher. Her novels have sold over four million copies and won numerous awards, including the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller, and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction. She lives in Dublin with her family. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Twitter Instagram TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.4	So my guest today is Tana French, author of a new novel called The Hunter.
0:44.3	What happened there was I had just discovered the Western genre, which somehow I had never encountered along the way.
0:50.3	I'd never read any Westerns. And then I read Lonesome Dove on a recommendation,
0:54.3	and it is such an amazing book. And I sort of branched out and discovered true grit and
0:59.2	like the sisters brothers and went, Westerns are brilliant. And it struck me that the Western
1:05.1	settings have an awful lot in common with the West of Ireland. You've got this terrain which,
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