Cathleen Schine: Fin and Lady

Bookworm

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2013

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Cathleen Schine says that she – and her writing – survive by seeing the humor in her life.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:03.5	Boots!
0:06.0	Where would we be without boos?
0:12.0	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No, Timberd.
0:16.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without books?
0:23.3	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and welcome to Bookworm.
0:29.0	Today my guest is Kathleen Shine, Kathy Shine, and I'm so happy to have her on because her new novel, Finnan Lady, is a book that
0:41.7	threw me back to my childhood.
0:45.2	The book takes place when its young hero is 11 years old, and he's about to embark on
0:53.4	a new life with his half-sister in Greenwich Village.
0:58.5	When it's all happening, what year does the book start?
1:01.8	It starts in 1964, which I think was a pretty big year for change.
1:08.1	It's when the Beatles happened, or at least when they happened in the United States.
1:13.3	It's a moment when his entire life just flips, and he goes from a rural setting to Greenwich Village
1:20.3	with his 24-year-old half-sister, lady.
1:24.4	Lady. And what wonderful names for characters?
1:28.3	How long did it take for you to come up with such vibrant names?
1:32.3	For some reason in this book, the names were very important and came out more eccentric than
1:38.3	they usually do.
1:39.3	Finn, for some reason that I don't know, I, from the very, very beginning, I had this picture of
1:46.9	his father on the night he was born, going into, after leaving the hospital, going into a revival
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