Seán Costello · @seanjcostello
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“She was getting what she called ‘nervous’ and she couldn't understand it, because she had been looking forward to Christmas.” Listen to Roddy Doyle reading Maeve Brennan’s Dublin-set story “Christmas Eve”, first published in the New Yorker in December 1972 newyorker.com/podcast/fiction/

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Sinéad Gleeson · @sineadgleeson
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Petrichor · @sinabhfuil
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What Frank McNally may not realise is that the "Biddy" or "Bridget" stereotype was still in full flow when used it in the mid-20th century

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Sinéad Gleeson · @sineadgleeson
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Sunday listening: (whose mother was Maeve’s cousin) reads and discusses Brennan’s story Christmas Eve on the podcast.

🎧: newyorker.com/podcast/fiction/

Listen back to this week’s on Brennan’s life and work in the link above.

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Sinéad Gleeson · @sineadgleeson
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“You are all your work has… A good way to remain on guard is to go to the window and watch the birds for an hour or two or three.”

From a letter from to her friend, the writer Tillie Olsen, which Olsen kept pinned above her desk.

@seventydys and I discuss Brennan’s life and work on the latest podcast.

🎧 backlisted.fm/episodes/174

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Sinéad Gleeson · @sineadgleeson
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One of my favourite is , who wrote ferocious, heart-stopping stories of Dublin, and superb columns for The New Yorker. Hugely forgotten after her death, there’s been a slow revival.

Brennan captures toxic relationships, unfulfilled lives & the unheimlich nature of domestic spaces; Her Long Winded Lady columns weave strangers’ lives and the psychogeography of NYC in eloquent prose.

David Hayden & I discuss her work on the latest Backlisted

🎧: backlisted.fm/episodes/174

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