Books for Breakfast

7: What You Don't Want to Know; Adam Wyeth; Coming Close to Charles Simic

August 27, 2020 Peter Sirr and Enda Wyley
Books for Breakfast
7: What You Don't Want to Know; Adam Wyeth; Coming Close to Charles Simic
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Today’s show features Deborah Levy’s Things I Don’t Want to Know, Flights by Olga Tocarczuk; the Toaster Challenge guest is poet and playwright Adam Wyeth. We also discuss Charles Simic’s latest collection of poems Come Closer and Listen and The Life of Images: Selected Prose.

Toaster Challenge choice: Clarice Lispector,Hour of the Star

Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry’ from The Hare’s Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it.

Art work by Freya Sirr

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Deborah Levy and Olga Tocarzuk
Toaster Challenge with Adam Wyeth
Charles Simic