#1696: Jill McCorkle "Hieroglyphics" | The Book Show

January 19, 2021 00:27:34
#1696: Jill McCorkle "Hieroglyphics" | The Book Show
The Book Show
#1696: Jill McCorkle "Hieroglyphics" | The Book Show

Jan 19 2021 | 00:27:34

/

Show Notes

This week, Jill McCorkle discusses her latest novel; Hieroglyphics, which reveals the difficulty of ever really knowing the intentions, dreams, and secrets of the people who raised you. In her deeply layered novel, McCorkle deconstructs and reconstructs what it means to be a father or a mother, and what it means to be a child piecing together the world around us. (more…)

Other Episodes

Episode

May 05, 2020 00:29:55
Episode Cover

#1659: Sue Monk Kidd’s “The Book of Longing” | The Book Show

In Sue Monk Kidd’s, new novel, “The Book of Longing,” she imagines a young woman named Ana, who becomes the wife of Jesus. The...

Listen

Episode

December 17, 2024 00:27:26
Episode Cover

The Book Show | Mark Haddon - Dogs and Monsters

Booker Prize finalist Mark Haddon, author of the internationally bestselling novel, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” returns with “Dogs and...

Listen

Episode

June 14, 2022 00:27:30
Episode Cover

#1769 Bill McKibben “The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon” | The Book Show

Author and Environmentalist Bill McKibben is the author of more than a dozen books, including The End of Nature, which was the first book...

Listen