3/22 Pond - general/background

[Vesna]

Claire-Louise Bennett's Pond was selected for the open pick this month. There are three editions: Irish (The Stinging Fly Press), UK (Fitzcarraldo Editions) and US (Riverhead Books).

In preparation for our discussion, I found a few very good reviews and also interviews with the author.

Reviews:

London Review of Books
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n...

Bookforum
https://www.bookforum.com/culture/pon...

The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-...

Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/201...

The Harper’s (reviewed along with Bennett's more recent Checkout 19)
https://harpers.org/archive/2022/03/p...

Claire-Louise Bennett's article on writing Pond in The Irish Times:
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/bo...

Brian Dillon's audio interview with Bennett:
https://soundcloud.com/misterenderby/...

The author's interview for The Paris Review:
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2...

The book won our runner-up poll for this month and we hope to have a good discussion. Who is in?

[Bretnie]

I just finished and am looking forward to the discussion!

[Kathleen]

I'm in. Have just started and it's definitely different. I especially appreciate The Irish Times article you posted, Vesna, because it gives me an idea what she is going for.

[Vesna]

Bretnie and Kathleen, I look forward to your discussion! Kathleen, I also thought that Bennett's article gave a good sense about her book, even better than a couple of reviews I sampled.