Eimear McBride
Season 6, Episode 14
The final of the episodes recorded during the Edinburgh Fringe and Robin and Josie are joined by Baileys and Goldsmith prize winner, the novelist Eimear McBride. They chat about her latest work The Lesser Bohemians and the process of writing the acclaimed A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing as well as great songwriters, James Joyce, Beckett, Edna O’Brien and much more. Also Josie still has a bag of frozen peas on her knee.
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Reading List
Eimear recommends:
Ulysses by James Joyce
An Actor’s Handbook by Konstantin Stanislavski
Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The White Book by Han Kang
Human Acts by Han Kang
The work of Samuel Beckett
The Complete Lyrics of Nick Cave
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Narnia series by CS Lewis
The work of Edith Nesbitt
Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Country Girl by Edna O’Brien
The Lonely Girl by Edna O’Brien
Girls in Their Married Bliss by Edna O’Brien
What Belongs To You by Garth Greenwell
Robin recommends:
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
The Monkey’s Mask by Dorothy Porter
A Girl Is a Half Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
Being An Actor by Simon Callow
Introducing Freud by Oscar Zarate and Richard Appignanesi
The work of Roland Barthes
The work of Ian Rankin
Murphy by Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett: Photographs by John Minihan and Aidan Higgins
The Phoenix and the Carpet by Edith Nesbit
Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders
Girl with Green Eyes by Edna O’Brien
Jerusalem by Alan Moore
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