{"id":153,"date":"2007-07-26T11:12:36","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T16:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=153"},"modified":"2012-02-26T10:00:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T15:00:52","slug":"bss-122-richard-flanagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/bss-122-richard-flanagan\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Flanagan (BSS #122)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Flanagan is most recently the author of <i>The Unknown Terrorist<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/richardflanagan.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"richardflanagan\" width=\"300\" height=\"308\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8683\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-153-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo122.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo122.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo122.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo122.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=153-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo122.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo122.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 56:34 &#8212; 51.8MB)<\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Attempting to understand Tasmanians.<\/p>\n<p><b>Author Interview:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Flanagan\">Richard Flanagan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b> The novel as a warning, interviews with overly serious journalists, the novel as a mirror to the world, the inspiration of Heinrich B\u00c3\u00b6ll&#8217;s <i>The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum<\/i>, the tradition of using other people&#8217;s plots, Jonathan Lethem&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpers.org\/archive\/2007\/02\/0081387\">essay on copyright<\/a>, the obsession with intellectual property, heightened metaphors, people living without land and love, the remarkable disconnect between the author&#8217;s intentions and the reader&#8217;s perception, the amount of noise in the world, using brand names in language, plagiarizing from infotainment, not wanting to repeat <i>Gould&#8217;s Book of Fish<\/i>, on being innately semiotic, the <i>Sydney Morning Herald<\/I>, bourgeois broadsheets vs. yellow journalism, absolute vs. relative truth, on being savaged by the Tasmanian media, the despair of politics, the difficulties of the word &#8220;terrorist,&#8221; why books are a better conduit for truth than other mediums, the seduction of evil, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/books\/99\/07\/04\/specials\/hemingway-marquez.html\">Gabriel Garcia Marquez&#8217;s comparison of Hemingway and Faulkner<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><b>EXCERPT FROM SHOW:<\/B> <\/p>\n<p><b>Flanagan:<\/b> A book has many faces.  I mean, in the end, a book isn&#8217;t what a writer thinks it is.  A book is what a reader makes of it, when they lend the authority of their lives and their souls to it.  But, for me, I was determined to try and escape politics with the book.  I wanted to find a simple parable &#8212; that it would act like a mirror to what the world was now.  I felt the least useful thing I had were my opinions, my attitudes, my politics.  I wanted to abandon all that.  I just wanted to try and live within the world the way it was, and have a story that spoke as accurately as possible to it, in a way that might lead me and hopefully the reader to some broader sense of what the world is now.  But I didn&#8217;t know what the world was.  And I don&#8217;t pretend to have any clue.  I have even less clue actually.  But it&#8217;s always in story that things are revealed.  Not in the author&#8217;s attitudes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8684\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-153-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo122.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo122.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo122.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo122.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=153-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo122.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo122.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 56:34 &#8212; 51.8MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Flanagan is most recently the author of The Unknown Terrorist. 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