Anne Enright

Man Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright

From: New Letters on the Air
Series: New Letters on the Air
Length: 29:00

At the Kansas City Public Library, Irish author Anne Enright discusses her dark but humorous approach to writing about love, desire, death and family, and explains how having children helped organize her writing life. She reads from her memoir, MAKING BABIES: STUMBLING INTO MOTHERHOOD, and from her novels THE GATHERING, which won the 2009 Man Booker Prize, and THE FORGOTTEN WALTZ, a finalist for the 2012 Orange Prize. Read the full description.

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Playing: Man Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright
From: New Letters on the Air

Enright-prx_small In this interview recorded at the Kansas City Public Library, Irish author Anne Enright talks about how having children helped organize her writing life and reads from her nonfiction book, MAKING BABIES: STUMBLING INTO MOTHERHOOD. Enright discusses her often darkly humorous approach to writing about both familial and romantic love as well as death and desire. The author of five novels and two short story collections, Enright also reads from her Man Booker Prize-winning novel, THE GATHERING, and from THE FORGOTTEN WALTZ, which was just short-listed for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction.

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Piece Description

In this interview recorded at the Kansas City Public Library, Irish author Anne Enright talks about how having children helped organize her writing life and reads from her nonfiction book, MAKING BABIES: STUMBLING INTO MOTHERHOOD. Enright discusses her often darkly humorous approach to writing about both familial and romantic love as well as death and desire. The author of five novels and two short story collections, Enright also reads from her Man Booker Prize-winning novel, THE GATHERING, and from THE FORGOTTEN WALTZ, which was just short-listed for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction.

Broadcast History

This program originally uplinked to PRSS' Content Depot on May 11, 2012 for delivery to member stations.

Timing and Cues

PROMO: On the next New Letters on the Air...Irish author Anne Enright discusses her dark but humorous approach to writing about love, family, death and desire, and reads from two of her novels, THE GATHERING, a Man Booker Prize winner, and THE FORGOTTEN WALTZ, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize. Enright also reads from her memoir now published in the U.S. called MAKING BABIES: STUMBLING INTO MOTHERHOOD, and talks about how having children helped organize her writing life. Anne Enright--next time on NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR...
UPLINK DATE: 05/11/2012
PROGRAM LENGTH: 29:00 minutes
INCUE: (music) "Disarmingly funny and simultaneously haunting...
OUTCUE: "...for listening to NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR. I'm Angela Elam."

Musical Works

Title	Artist	Album	Label	Year	Length
Glenshiel	Studio Cutz Music Library	Celtic Folk.	Mediatone Music, Inc.	2012	00:00
Lowlands	Studio Cutz Music Library	Celtic Folk.	Mediatone Music, Inc.	2012	00:00

Additional Credits

New Letters on the Air is a production of the quarterly literary magazine, New Letters, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Partial financial support comes from the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.