Summary
Renowned author A.S. Byatt reveals the aesthetic theory behind her fiction.
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| 0:00.0 | You are a human animal. |
| 0:07.5 | You are a very special breed, or you are the only animal. |
| 0:14.9 | Who can think, who can reason, who can read. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and welcome to Bookworm. |
| 0:21.0 | This is Michael Sverblatt, |
| 0:22.4 | and my guest today is A.S. Biat, |
| 0:24.3 | the author of The Gin and the Nightingale's Eye, |
| 0:27.1 | published by Random House. |
| 0:28.7 | She is the author as well. |
| 0:30.8 | I'll just do the more recent works |
| 0:32.5 | because she was really discovered in America |
| 0:35.4 | with her book, Possession. |
| 0:37.3 | And she is the author as well of angels and insects. |
| 0:42.5 | I can't tell you how many people talk to me about that film still. |
| 0:46.7 | The Matisse Stories, Babel Tower, and now The Gin in the Nightingale's Eye. |
| 0:51.6 | And I thought it would be wonderful to have her on during our |
| 0:55.3 | subscription drive because these stories are at the essence of what we do on Bookworm. They are |
| 1:02.7 | about the necessity for storytelling itself, whether that be for consolation, for joy, for |
| 1:10.2 | recollection, for memory, for exploration. |
| 1:12.9 | And I wanted to ask you about the significance of the fairy story to you. |
| 1:21.2 | I think the fairer story when I was a girl was a release. |
| 1:26.1 | It gave another world in brighter colours in which everything |
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