Today we had the pleasure of speaking to Susan Furber about her debut novel, The Essence of an Hour, her writing processes as well as her recommendations. Susan comes in hard with corkers like Simone de Beauvoir’s recently released novel, The Inseparables - which Susan tells us is an excellent entry point into de Beauvoir’s oeuvre - as well as diving into her simultaneous love for and eye-rolling at the Titanic.
CW: Sexual assault.
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See below for a full list of what we discuss:
The Essence of an Hour by Susan Furber
Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
What Red Was by Rosie Price
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien
A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
American In Paris
Funny Girl
Jane Austen
Simone de Beauvoir:
She Came to Stay
The Inseparables
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
The Second Sex
The Mandarins
The Woman Destroyed
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
Titanic
