Art for the End Times: Sally Rooney and the socialist novel

The best-selling and (mostly) critically acclaimed Irish novelist Sally Rooney has sometimes come under fire for not—despite her professed personal left-leaning politics—writing “Marxist” novels. But what does a Marxist novel look like? Is the novel form itself inherently bourgeois? In this episode of Art for the End Times, Lyta Gold sits down with writer and McGill University PhD candidate Richard Joseph to discuss Rooneymania, love stories, the limitations of the realist novel, and what exactly we are asking of writers when we ask them to tell “Marxist” stories.<br /><br />Read the transcript of this podcast: <a href="https://therealnews.com/lets-talk-about-sally-rooney-what-makes-a-novel-socialist" rel="noopener">https://therealnews.com/lets-talk-about-sally-rooney-what-makes-a-novel-socialist</a><br /><br />Richard Joseph, LA Review of Books, "Everyone's a Critic": <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/everyones-a-critic" rel="noopener">https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/everyones-a-critic</a>/<br /><br />Pre-Production/Studio: Maximillian Alvarez<br />Post-Production: Brent Tomchik<br /><br />Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer: <br /><br />Donate: <a href="https://therealnews.com/donate-pod" rel="noopener">https://therealnews.com/donate-pod</a><br />Sign up for our newsletter: <a href="https://therealnews.com/newsletter-pod" rel="noopener">https://therealnews.com/newsletter-pod</a><br /><br />Like us on Facebook: <a href="https://facebook.com/therealnews" rel="noopener">https://facebook.com/therealnews</a><br />Follow us on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/therealnews" rel="noopener">https://twitter.com/therealnews</a>