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- As with all of her novels, Penny drew inspiration from two lines by W.H. Auden in his elegy to Herman Melville: “Goodness existed: that was the new knowledge./His terror had to blow itself quite out/To let him see it.”
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Dec 5, 2022 · Interview. ‘Hillary and I were both broken women’: Louise Penny on writing a political thriller with Clinton. Alison Flood. As her most famous creation hits the screen, the author talks about...
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Sep 21, 2020 · 20 fascinating facts about Louise Penny. How did your past as a journalist help you get over any anxiety you may have had toward writing that first book? "It was all my own fears. There was ...
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"The first book that resonated and changed my life, even though I was eight years old when I read it, was Charlotte's Web. "It's because I was such a fearful child. I came out of the womb afraid. Thankfully, I was never given reason to, but I was afraid of everything, and my cardinal fear was spiders. It was a phobia. "I still remember [the first t...
"I must have been in my early teens, maybe mid-teens, reading it at school. Up until then, most of the books we'd read were by dead American or British men. I remember being shocked when the teacher must have said that Mowat is alive. It struck me then that it is possible to be Canadian, a writer and alive all at the same time. From then on, I thou...
"Years ago, my mother gave me the Collected Poems of W.H. Auden, and it was a big six-inch book. I'm thinking for God's sake, you've given me an assignment! "It changed my life. Certainly it informs all my books, but the great poetry also informs your life. It gives you guideposts along the way. I try to memorize poems so that when I go for a walk,...
Dec 1, 2022 · writing wrongs. This Time, Louise Penny Thinks She Got It Right. “I don’t have much to gain but lots to lose,” the best-selling author of a series of 18 (and counting) mystery novels says of...
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Dec 15, 2022 · As with all of her novels, Penny drew inspiration from two lines by W.H. Auden in his elegy to Herman Melville: “Goodness existed: that was the new knowledge./His terror had to blow itself...
Jun 21, 2023 · The first and only time I met Louise Penny, I was sitting in the front row of her author talk at a church in Burlington. Finished with her address, she left the podium to clamorous applause from ...
Dec 7, 2022 · Not only was he the inspiration for her wise, kind, clear-sighted detective, but he was also the reason she found the courage to write in the first place. Whitehead was diagnosed with dementia in...
