Turtle Diary with Ana Gavrilovska

Episode 11 April 04, 2023 00:58:07
Turtle Diary with Ana Gavrilovska
Unburied Books
Turtle Diary with Ana Gavrilovska

Apr 04 2023 | 00:58:07

/

Show Notes

Writer Ana Gavrilovska joins us to talk about Turtle Diary written by Russell Hoban. We discuss middle age, loneliness, romance, Godlessness, and, of course, the symbolic resonance of turtles.

References:
Ninotchka
Pagliacci
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
I Heart Huckabees
The Swimmer
King Kong

To purchase books covered on the show, please visit our digital bookshop at https://bookshop.org/shop/unburiedbooks. Buying them here helps to support the podcast.

Other Episodes

Episode 6

August 22, 2023 01:01:56
Episode Cover

The Go-Between with Vivek Narayanan

Writer and poet Vivek Narayanan joins us to discuss L. P. Hartley's The Go-Between. We talk about how Hartley, in this novel about a...

Listen

Episode 7

March 05, 2024 01:04:33
Episode Cover

Blue Lard with Max Lawton

Max Lawton joins us to discuss his new translation of Vladimir Sorokin's Blue Lard, a controversial Russian novel originally published in 1999. We talk...

Listen

Episode 11

October 31, 2023 01:22:17
Episode Cover

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner with James Kelman

Author James Kelman joins us to discuss James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, originally published in 1824. It tells...

Listen