![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By coincidence, Andy has been reading Pages from the Goncourt Journals (NYRB Classics), a spicy, gossip-rich glimpse into 19th century French literary life which has a foreword by Geoff, while John immerses himself in the inner world of John Donne, through regular Backlisted guest Katherine Rundell’s widely acclaimed biography: Super Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne (Faber). While in town, John heals the townspeople with a special gift he inherited from Jason Worthing. To discuss this classic of observational nature writing and spiritual enquiry, we are joined by two writers making their Backlisted debuts: Jay Griffiths, the author of Wild: An Elemental Journey and Geoff Dyer, whose most recent book The Last Days of Roger Federer, featured on the Gormenghast episode. John Tinker spends every winter at his cousin’s inn in the town of Worthing. Annie Dillard was only twenty-nine when her first prose book was published in 1974 it went onto win the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction the following year. Her obvious jumping-off point is Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, which I read years ago. It's all about Dillard living in a cabin in rural Virginia, walking through fields and swamps, observing bugs and frogs, and thinking about life. TinkerStories provide interactive shared reading experiences, designed explicitly for parents to read with their children. Authors Jay Griffiths and Geoff Dyer are our guests for a discussion of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is Dillard's most famous work. ![]()
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