All of our 2020-21 BookTalk events are now on our YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCje4naMuijDvIPcjKMeIKYg) where you can catch up with with our anything you missed – talks so far include Jane Austen’s Emma, Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Richard Gwyn’s The Blue … Continue reading Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred – watch online
Get to know Octavia E. Butler before this week’s BookTalk, where we will cover her classic novel Kindred. In this wide-ranging interview from The Charlie Rose Show (‘…the nightly PBS program that engages America’s best thinkers‘) she discusses her (then) new book Parable of the … Continue reading ‘It’s about sending my mind off to some place it hasn’t been before.’
‘Kindred was kind of draining and depressing, especially the research for writing it. I now have a talk that begins with the question, ‘How long does it take to write a novel?’ and the answer is, as long as you’ve lived up to the time … Continue reading ‘How long does it take to write a novel?’
Cardiff BookTalk is delighted to invite you to our March 2021 event, which will consider Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred. Dana is moving boxes of books into the new apartment she will share with her husband, when she suddenly feels sick, collapses and awakes by the … Continue reading Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred
