And I’m afraid that the portrait of my mother in the book was a more satirical one, partly because she was the one who was still around, partly because it’s easier to satirize your intrusive Jewish mother than your brooding Irish father. And the portrait of him, I think, was bathed in the glow of idealization that one feels for a parent after they die. Somebody in the course of the book jokes that she’s a Dylanist, rather than a Marxist or a Trotskyist.Īs I say, I started the book shortly after my father died. The premise of the book was that I was writing about an imaginary younger sister of mine, the child of American communists, someone who’d inherited their parents’ dissatisfaction with the world, but not their faith that the world could be changed. And the parents in the book are very much my parents, or one version of my parents. I started “The Dylanist” shortly after my father died. Tell me about how your real mother and father might show up in that work of fiction, and how it, in some ways, inspired your memoir. We will primarily discuss your memoir, but I want to start with your first novel, “The Dylanist,” which was published in 1991, because it plays an important role in setting up this new book. He is the author of five novels, including “Florence Gordon” and “Starting Out in the Evening,” but he joins us to talk about his first nonfiction book, “Tasha: A Son’s Memoir.” Brian, thanks for being here. Rachel Careau joins us to discuss her new translation of two novels by Colette, “Chéri” and “The End of Chéri.” Plus, my colleagues Lauren Christensen and Joumana Khatib will be here to talk about what they’ve been reading. The sound was very important to me, and I really let the sound guide me. The novelist Brian Morton is here to talk about his first work of nonfiction, “Tasha: A Son’s Memoir.” rachel careau ![]() ![]() ![]() And here was my mother, perhaps the most colorful character I’ve ever written about, who was right there to be written about. But it takes me a very long time to sort of give birth to them. I love to write about fictional characters. Transcript Brian Morton on ‘Tasha: A Son’s Memoir’ Hosted by John Williams Morton discusses his first work of nonfiction, and Rachel Careau talks about translating “Chéri” and “The End of Chéri,” by Colette.
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