Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: How Tana French Uses Genre Tropes to Tell Great Human Stories
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon talks with author Tana French about her new book, The Hunter. They discuss the different perspectives French uses throughout her books, how French happened into writing mysteries, writing as an outsider to Ireland, and more.
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| 0:28.0 | Welcome to Gabfest reads for the month of March. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Emily Bazlan, one of the co-host of Slate Political Gabfest. |
| 0:37.5 | I am here today with Tana French. |
| 0:39.8 | Hi Tana. |
| 0:40.6 | Hi, Emily, thank you so much for having me. I am so excited that you're here. So |
| 0:46.7 | fans of Tana French, me among them, hold their breath for the moment when a new Tana French novel appears and we are here to talk about the Hunter which is Tana's ninth book |
| 0:59.5 | This is a book that delivers all the pleasures. I think that Tana French is known for. |
| 1:05.4 | It's a suspense novel. |
| 1:06.8 | It has a detective story at the heart that is a page turner. |
| 1:11.6 | It has memorable characters. Cal Hooper and Trey Reddy are back from Tana's last book, The Searchers. And also returning are the Village and Community of Farms and mountain dwellings of Arden-A-Kelty in Western Ireland. |
| 1:26.5 | In many of your novels, Tana, there's a social issue of our times that's kind of in the background. It's not pushing the narrative forward but |
| 1:35.1 | it's affecting what happens and how the characters are feeling. And I think this time |
| 1:39.8 | the issue that at least leaped out to me was climate change because there is a very hot summer happening |
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