Ian McEwan: A writer's life

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One of Britain's most successful living writers, Ian McEwan has made a career of dreaming up stories. But his new book, "Lessons," features a plotline inspired by a secret his mother kept from him until her death: that she'd given up McEwan's brother for adoption. The author talks with correspondent Seth Doane about his latest novel, a winding, lifelong journey chronicling love, child sex abuse, and lost opportunities.
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@elizaheathen Жыл бұрын

"it's no longer a job; it's a way of being. to stop doing it would be to cease existing."

@prasantbanerjee8199 10 ай бұрын

Ian Mcewan is always a pleasure to listen to. In this talk, I was intrigued also by the constant, robot-like, and determinedly unflinching stare of the interviewer.

@vesely8814 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing this!

@Algabatz Жыл бұрын

Now I have to read one of his books!

@cyndiezahner5883 Жыл бұрын

Autobiographical, yes. Always. Wonderful interview and gives those of us who turn out sixteen-hour days, seven days a week, hope. It's a way of being. Truly. Even for those of us who live in small houses.

@reddkat6349 Жыл бұрын

Great interview, really enjoyed. He sounds alot like my mom describing her love of teaching. She taught for 45 years. Thanks

@xinxinli8779 Жыл бұрын

Just got this book, it's a difficult subject, but it's a rewarding read.

@anitahayne8621 Жыл бұрын

After watching this segment, I bought his book.

@ericjflaherty1330 6 ай бұрын

Great Author & great books too

@lpinbrez Жыл бұрын

A brilliant author!

@SandyWolf- Жыл бұрын

Stunning man lovely writer!

@Numismatists_Matter Жыл бұрын

#IanMcEwan 😌☺️ A Bookshop is wonderful , so is your mom and home.

@dr.amitabhamukherjee3601 Жыл бұрын

Wow! Unbelievable that he has been at it for half a century. The Cement Garden and The Comfort of Strangers still read like they were written yesterday. His pellucid prose cuts like a scalpel, making art out of depravity and personal demons. He is a minimalist genius, parsimonious with the tools at his disposal but so semantically exact that he knocks you out. At his best he combines the precision of Flaubert with the sensuous delight of Updike.

@feelinguru-vywiththepaingu9808 Жыл бұрын

Beautifully written, your comment and McEwan's books!

@Pitboolia59 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful. I have always loved his work.

@OldBluesChapterandVerse Жыл бұрын

Well, Ian McEwan has a very, very nice home. 🤯 Nice to see a point being made by the prominent, foregrounded placement of the recent biography of Philip Roth on his coffee table.

@petestevens3970 Жыл бұрын

Nice closing remarks by the author.

@steveconn Жыл бұрын

Along with Martin Amis last of the great, non-children's fantasy English novelists. Atonement made a powerful, poignant film adaptation. Will check his new work out (Late Art critic Robert Hughes very good too! And Pauline Kael!).

@_aworldthatspoke950 Жыл бұрын

Have you read Anne Quinn? Iain Sinclair? Johnathan Meads? Don’t narrow yourself into the barnes and noble pigeonhole

@yasminhelenendangeredspecies Жыл бұрын

I agree Ian McEwan is truly one of the Finest Writers and yes, he sits at the table alongside Martin Amis. And so many other truly Fine writers; many of them are Women as well.

@dr.amitabhamukherjee3601 Жыл бұрын

@@yasminhelenendangeredspecies IMHO Amis is a gifted prose stylist who never made the cut as a novelist. It's not enough to write a polished, perfect sentence to be a great novelist. Among McEwan's eminent contemporaries, Julian Barnes, Graham Swift, Salman Rushdie and maybe Howard Jacobson, writers as diverse -- and as good -- as they come, knew the trick (not to mention IM himself).

@Nothereforit174 2 ай бұрын

Give people who aren’t white men a chance 😂....

@jeanlaubenthal698 Жыл бұрын

To an artist work and play have little distinction.

@emiliobello2538 Жыл бұрын

Saw this at breakfast

@scottkerns5095 Жыл бұрын

I saw this at 5:15 in the afternoon while eating chicken rice and sipping on a Pepsi.

@deadinthebed963 2 ай бұрын

Couple of hours from London😂 That's all the Americans would recognize

@thelaurels13 Жыл бұрын

A brilliant author and a beautiful house.

@framestomind7548 Жыл бұрын

why write and read really.. why watch film or act.. is it not better after all we go live an actual life and challenge ourselves in this physical space than luring ourselves to live in the minds of other people''s fantasies likes book, plays and films... Perhaps we should give up the fiction in all forms and set sail to find ourselves out in the real world we never otherwise will see.