Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

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🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Authors Jay Griffiths and Geoff Dyer are our guests for a discussion of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Annie Dillard was only twenty-nine when her first prose book was published in 1974; it went onto win the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction the following year. To discuss this classic of observational nature writing and spiritual enquiry, we are joined by two writers making their Backlisted debuts: Jay Griffiths, the author of Wild: An Elemental Journey and Geoff Dyer, whose most recent book The Last Days of Roger Federer, featured on the Gormenghast episode. By coincidence, Andy has been reading Pages from the Goncourt Journals (NYRB Classics), a spicy, gossip-rich glimpse into 19th century French literary life which has a foreword by Geoff, while John immerses himself in the inner world of John Donne, through regular Backlisted guest Katherine Rundell’s widely acclaimed biography: Super Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne (Faber). Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 08:12 - Pages from the Goncourt Journals by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt. 16:45 - Super Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell. 22:29 - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard * To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops. * For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm *If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Music
0:52.0	Hello and welcome to Backlisted, the podcast that gives new life to old books.
0:57.0	Today you find us near the town of Roanoke in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
1:02.0	It's a sunny day in January 1971 and we're heading north following a stream.
1:07.0	Ahead of us, in the middle of the water there is a tear-shaped island sitting on the dry grass at the far end.
1:13.0	A young woman is staring intently at the slow-moving current as water striders skate across the surface
1:20.0	and a frog sits half in and half out of the water.
1:24.0	I'm John Mitchinson, the publisher of Unbound, the platform where readers crowdfund books they really want to read.
1:30.0	And I'm Andy Miller, author of the Year of Reading Dangerously
1:33.0	and today we're joined by two guests making their Backlisted Davies.
1:36.0	Please welcome Jay Griffiths and Jeff Dyer. Hello to both.
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