Just watched
Fast Forward's latest video interview, this time with writer
Keith Donohue, regarding his first published novel,
The Stolen Child. I really enjoyed this interview, both for the questions and unusually thoughtful responses; very quickly, the conversation focused on Donohue's philosophical concerns and choices of technique, which I found fascinating. No surprise the book has received such praise.
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I really liked what the author said about 'The Last Child in the Woods', and the sense of imagination and wonder we sacrifice to the idol of security.
Wait, what was that? Did I hear a twig snap in the darkness?
From the Washington Post review:
"Inspired by W.B. Yeats's poem about the legend of the changelings, The Stolen Child owes a further debt to J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, another fairy story that was not about fairies at all but about the loss of imagination and about growing up."
But thankfully we have writers like Donohue (talking out of my ass, since I haven't read the novel!) who almost make up for it with their very rich imaginations.
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