{"id":138,"date":"2007-05-06T11:45:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T16:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=138"},"modified":"2012-02-27T18:17:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T23:17:41","slug":"bss-112-lionel-shriver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/bss-112-lionel-shriver\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Shriver (BSS #112)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Shriver is most recently the author of <i>The Post-Birthday World<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/lionelshriver1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lionelshriver1\" width=\"450\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7895\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-138-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo112.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo112.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo112.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo112.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=138-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo112.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo112.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 56:52 &#8212; 52.1MB)<\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Abdicating his duties for an advertising campaign.<\/p>\n<p><b>Author:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lionel_Shriver\">Lionel Shriver<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b> Devising a dual narrative, snooker, film references, the relationship between <i>The Bad Seed<\/i> and <i>Sliding Doors<\/i> and Shriver&#8217;s novels, dialect and transcribed speech, sports in Shriver&#8217;s books, contrasting characters, the pros and cons of popcorn, playing the 9\/11 card in contemporary fiction, writing from outlines and notes, Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s <i>The Road<\/i>, on books having a short-shelf life, the success of <i>We Need to Talk About Kevin<\/i>, writing about the States from the UK, persevering as an author, food, fiction with a sense of purpose, being in love with language, Shriver&#8217;s evolving fiction tastes, on being a book critic, the benefits of reader exasperation, sex and relationships, and the Bad Sex Award.<\/p>\n<p><b>EXCERPT FROM SHOW:<\/B> <\/p>\n<p><b>Shriver:<\/b> It was important of me never to play games for the sake of it, that is, I didn&#8217;t just want to write a clever book that was a formal experiment.  The idea was always to be illustrating something about the characters, something about the nature of two very different kinds of relationships.  It&#8217;s a book about tradeoffs.  Neither of these men is perfect.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7896\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-138-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo112.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo112.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo112.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo112.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=138-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo112.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo112.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 56:52 &#8212; 52.1MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Shriver is most recently the author of The Post-Birthday World. 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