cauvery madhavan‘s book “the tainted” is a story of tragic love set against the struggle for independence in ireland as well as india in the early 20th century. it skips a bunch of decades and a generation or two and resumes in the 1980s to conclude in the most heart-wrenching way drax could envision.
and reportedly cauvery did not know how the end was going to happen 3/4ths through writing the book!
enjoy a wide-ranging conversation about craft, culture and an epic narrative with loads of historical context thrown in for good measure! i am off, catching up with cauvery’s back catalogue …
and here we go with the aforementioned additional material/context:
- the original live-streamed show:
- postgame hangout:
- shyla prepared wonderful slides on the various themes “the tainted” is touching on [feel free to get into interweb rabbit holes to investigate further or even better = get some good books on those topics!]:
- good added context about the irish side of the 1920s = our show with patricia murphy from a few months back:
- next week = a change of pace: almost no real facts in simon stephenson‘s “set my heart to five” because it is about a robot writing a successful hollywood screenplay. oh wait …. is this an autobiography of every screenwriter who dabbled in formula to make a buck? tune in and find out!
- what else is happening in second life? the first 4k video i ever produced is coming, that’s what! you may recognize the location …. but gotta sub to the official sl youtube channel folks!
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