Reframing Risk and Reinvention with Emma Donoghue

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Reframeables’ first ever live recording!

Writer Junot Diaz said: “When the world is burning, spending a little time with one’s people — in our case: book lovers — is no small gift, precisely because the world is burning.” So that’s what we did with our live podcast recording a few weeks ago. We spent time with our people: fellow book lovers and the extraordinary Emma Donoghue, reframing risk and reinvention.

Irish-Canadian Emma Donoghue is the author of sixteen novels and numerous plays, a fixture on the New York Times bestseller list, and the mind behind Room — long-listed for the Booker Prize, adapted by Emma into an Academy Award-nominated screenplay. She’s done it all, and we couldn’t wait to ask her everything. Her latest, The Paris Express, is the book we couldn’t put down.

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The Paris Express
For more from Emma, take a look at her website

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1. This week's episode (00:00:00)

2. Everything about trains (00:01:45)

3. Defying the rules of writing (00:09:31)

4. Writing historical fiction (00:11:45)

5. Plays and musicals (00:14:06)

6. Trying new genres (00:17:48)

7. The burden of representation (00:19:34)

8. Working through issues in writing (00:21:55)

9. Memory and invention (00:25:07)

10. Returning to Ireland (00:29:20)

11. Outlining vs. going with the flow (00:31:30)

12. Choosing the vantage point (00:34:57)

13. Getting into the heads of strangers (00:36:52)

14. AI (00:40:15)

15. Accolades (00:43:53)

16. Advice for your younger self (00:45:26)

17. Creative joy right now (00:46:35)

18. Speed round (00:47:50)

19. Questions from the audience (00:51:05)

20. Wrapping up (00:56:56)