Interview with Jamie Bernthal-Hooker, Author of Jessica Brick Investigates
All About Agatha Christie
Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
If you are a longtime listener of this podcast, Jamie Bernthal-Hooker is no stranger to you. But until now, our conversations have focused on his scholarly endeavors vis-a-vis Christie. Last month, I was fortunate enough to snag him for a half-hour at the Agatha Christie Festival to discuss his creative project satirizing murder mysteries in general, and Miss Jane Marple in particular. Get ready to meet Jessica Brick!
Please visit and subscribe to the podcast's Patreon page here.
Please pre-order my debut mystery novel, The Busy Body, here.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery |
| 0:10.3 | novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie. |
| 0:14.8 | I am Kemper Donovan, and this is the second episode to come directly out of the 2023 |
| 0:21.1 | Agatha Christie Festival that I attended in lovely Torquee in the south of England. |
| 0:26.4 | This past September, one of my co-panelists who you listened to in my previous episode, |
| 0:32.2 | debating Agatha Christie's greatest short story, was kind enough to sit down with me while |
| 0:37.9 | we were still both attending the festival and to talk a little bit about the work that he does. |
| 0:44.1 | That would be Dr. Jamie Bernthal Hooker, and let's just get right to the interview because |
| 0:48.1 | he doesn't really need all that much of a preamble at this point in the life of the podcast, |
| 0:52.4 | and we got right into it as we sat down face to face a couple of weeks ago. Enjoy! |
| 0:59.9 | My guest today is one of those I consider a true friend of the podcast. We've had Jamie |
| 1:05.6 | Bernthal Hooker on two times in the past, first to talk about his book of literary theory and criticism |
| 1:12.0 | queering Agatha Christie, and second to co-host an episode with me reviewing and ranking nemesis. |
| 1:18.4 | In that capacity, he was one of the few who stepped in to help me after my co-host, |
| 1:22.4 | Catherine Brobeck, passed away, and for that I will be eternally grateful. It's also a wonderful |
| 1:27.8 | episode. Last year he came out with Agatha Christie, a companion to the mystery fiction, |
| 1:32.4 | and in addition to editing to other books by various scholars and theorists writing about |
| 1:36.4 | Christie, he is one of the organizers of the annual Agatha Christie conference, which is a gathering |
| 1:41.6 | of mystery-focused academics and obsessives that I've attended twice now. The first time with |
| 1:47.3 | Catherine, and I know it was one of her favorite things she did for the podcast. Jamie was also one |
| 1:52.6 | of her favorite people she met through the podcast. We're actually doing this episode live and in |
| 1:57.7 | person here in Torquay, and Jamie is avoiding looking at me because this is all just a little too |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.