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Edna O Brien In Edna O’Brien’s “Irish Revel,” Mary is a 17-year-old girl who’s been invited to a party in town. She dons a black dress that belonged to no one in particular in her family but came to her small farm home in Ireland all the way from America. It’s a dress she considers special for a special occasion. She undoes her braids to reveal the crimped hair she may have deemed fancier than her normal straight locks or the braids themselves a style to keep the hair out of her face while she tended to her baby twin siblings or the many chores on the farm. Her efforts to look special or fancy go unnoticed and she can’t shake the image of the “mountainy” girl assigned to her by the other girls at the party. ....
Edna O Brien Edna O’Brien doesn’t shy away from controversy. Her storied dust-ups with critics of her works of memoir and fiction have never deterred her from the truths she continues to tell about herself and others who represent her particular brand of unvarnished truth-telling. In writing stories about the vagaries of love, she has been as persistent O’Brien has said, “I am obsessed quite irrationally by the notion of love … It’s an obsession, and I know it’s very limiting. At the same time, it’s what I feel the truest and most persistently about, and therefore it’s the thing that I have to write about.” ....
/ TPR welcomed three new podcasts this year, bringing the station s total to six. Our most-listened to episodes include stories about the early days of the pandemic and its economic fallout, as well as stories that explore the history and culture of San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley and highlight new works of literature. More than 400,000 listeners contributed to 780,000+ downloads: our biggest numbers ever. Here are TPR s most popular podcast episodes of 2020: The Shakeout: Oil Is In Trouble. So Is Texas. Listen • 26:30 The oil industry is in the midst of one of the worst busts on record. The price of oil is one-third less than it was in January, and for every dollar the price drops, Texas stands to lose $85 million a year in economic impact. ....
Peter Orner I’ve read a lot of headlines lately about the slow death of reading during the pandemic. A quick Google search reveals a half-dozen articles asserting those claims in just the last few weeks even as the book publishing world celebrates gains in sales. But I get it. The pandemic has turned our worlds and our schedules upside down. Old routines have been replaced by new ones, and in some of those transitions, time to read has had to be jettisoned from daily lives. Several months back, I returned to a memoir in essays that was first released in 2016, Am I Alone Here? by Peter Orner. I returned to it because I recalled the ways that Orner champions reading, considers it absolutely lifesaving. The subtitle of the book is, after all, “Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live.” Can reading be all that? Can our feeling about it be that absolute and unmitigated and unabashed? Well, yes. If not, then why do it at all? If not, indeed, why do anything ....