Niall Williams and Christine Breen: The Director's Cut

The Book Case

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Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.1 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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If you are a devoted GMA watcher (and you should be), you know that about a month ago we sat down with the great Irish native writing couple of Niall Williams and Christine Breen. What an amazing twosome they make, and we can’t get enough of talking to them. So we offer you the extended Niall Williams and Christine Breen interview. It was such fun to discuss why Ireland was vital to their writing careers and how they came into their own ….tune in and have a listen. Find books mentioned on The Book Case: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned in this week's episode: This is Happiness by Niall Williams Time of the Child by Niall Williams Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams History of the Rain by Niall Williams In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden by Niall Williams and Christine Breen O Come Ye Back to Ireland by Niall Williams and Christine Breen As it is in Heaven by Niall Williams Boy and Man by Niall Williams Only Say the Word by Niall Williams Her Name is Rose by Christine Breen Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare North by Seamus Heaney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.3	It is Thursday. It is the bookcase. I'm really excited about today's episode. So I'll go ahead and just quickly introduce myself. I'm Kate and he's the other guy. Who's the other guy?
0:36.6	Charlie Gibson. I'm Charlie
0:38.5	with the bookcase with Kate and Charlie. Publishing every Thursday. You don't have to listen to us
0:43.8	on a Thursday. You can listen to us on a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, whatever day you choose. Kate likes to
0:48.3	think everybody listens on Thursday. Not so, but that's okay. We'll forgive her that trespass. That's probably just mom who listens on Thursday. But, you know, God love mom. Yeah. I am so excited about today's show. It is our third bookcase with the great Nile Williams. The last time we had him on, we had so much fun. I was exchanging emails with his publicist, Rosie,
1:12.3	and I was like, oh, we just love having Nile all on the show. And she was like, well, it's funny
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