Jennifer Egan
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Minnie questions Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist (A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach, Candy House, and more). Jennifer shares how fondly she looks back on sharing a crowded hotel room in Ireland with her family, why she doesn’t write about love, and Minnie tries to find a way to be a character in Jennifer’s next book.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | 93 was like my jam. |
| 0:08.7 | Like, so I'm like, I'm like, oh, 93. |
| 0:12.8 | I could have been at this party. |
| 0:13.9 | Like, literally I was living in New York. |
| 0:14.9 | Could have been there. |
| 0:15.8 | I probably was there. |
| 0:17.1 | I bet I snog bicks. |
| 0:20.5 | I am in her book. |
| 0:22.6 | Maybe you are, actually. |
| 0:26.4 | Hello, I'm Minnie Driver. |
| 0:28.9 | I've always loved Proust's questionette. |
| 0:31.3 | It was originally an 19th century parlor game, |
| 0:34.7 | where players would ask each other 35 questions |
| 0:37.3 | aimed at revealing the |
| 0:39.1 | other player's true nature. In asking different people the same set of questions, you can make |
| 0:44.6 | observations about which truths appear to be universal. And it made me wonder, what if these questions |
| 0:50.1 | were just the jumping off point? What greater depths would be revealed if I asked these questions |
| 0:55.4 | as conversation starters? So I adapted Proust questionnaire and I wrote my own seven questions |
| 1:00.8 | that I personally think are pertinent to a person's story. They are, when and where were you happiest? |
| 1:06.8 | What is the quality you like least about yourself? What relationship real or fictionalized defines love for you? |
| 1:13.4 | What question would you most like answered? What person, place or experience has shaped you the most? |
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