Paul Murray: The Mark and the Void

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Paul Murray's comic novel dramatizes an economic crisis in his native Ireland, one that imperils the vitality of Dublin's culture.

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0:00.0	Hereby Monsters is a podcast about facing the unknown. I, uh, I start to float, float away from the earth. Have you ever smoked crack before? We're all kind of frantically searching for meaning. They have the neurotransmitters. I think we're all jugglers in some way. Yo, we're not broken. Crazy delinquents. We're in our last day, young man. Listen to Hear Be Monsters.
0:22.4	The podcast about the unknown.
0:24.2	On the KCRW iTunes page.
0:30.3	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannon Foundation.
0:34.2	Boots.
0:39.2	Where would we be without boos?
0:43.1	Where would we be without good?
0:45.4	No, to bird.
0:46.9	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:50.2	But where would we be without books?
0:53.6	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
1:01.4	Today I'm happy to have us my guest, Paul Murray.
1:05.5	He's a very, very, very funny Irish writer.
1:10.1	He's written three books, the most recent of which is called
1:13.9	The Mark and the Void. The second has the hilarious title, Skippy Dies, Death Being Always
1:21.1	a Funny Subject in Irish Literature, His First Novel, An Evening of Long Goodbyes.
1:28.3	Given this enormous history of comic writing that comes from Ireland, whether it's Swift or Wilde or Joyce or Flan O'Brien or Beckett,
1:45.3	does that put a special strain on you
1:52.4	to come from the country that has given us
1:55.1	our very best comic writing ever anywhere?
1:59.0	Yeah, there's a certain weight of history that every Irish writer has to labor under.
2:05.0	I don't know that it's a bad thing necessarily.
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