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Colm Toibin; Dullness as a virtue

Dec 15, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
A Brief History of a Dullard
01:47 • 2min
3
The Irresh Landscape
03:21 • 2min
4
The New York Times Book Review
05:11 • 2min
5
What Fiction Can Do to Explore Our Complex Feelings About Home
07:03 • 2min
6
What if the Virgin Mary Said, What Would Her Voice Be Like?
09:01 • 3min
7
How to Write a Novel - Rolly Webster
12:00 • 2min
8
I'm Gay, but I Don't Think That's the Same as Being Openly Gay
14:00 • 2min
9
The Dullest Monarch Ever Silled
15:35 • 2min
10
George's Dulness Was a Political Asset
17:06 • 3min
11
I've Lost My Best Friend and the Best of Fathers
19:39 • 2min
12
The Diary of George the Fifth
21:14 • 2min
13
Is He Ruthless as Well as Dull?
23:11 • 2min
14
Puritanism in the English Civil Wars
25:38 • 2min
15
Puritanism and the Killjoys Charge
27:12 • 2min
16
Is There a Difference Between Kill Joy and Kill Joy?
28:58 • 1min
17
Charles the First's Execution
30:28 • 2min
18
Dullness and Politics
32:51 • 2min
19
The Home of Capitalism in Northern Europe
35:15 • 2min
20
Is There a Dullness in the World?
36:49 • 3min
21
Is There a Respectability in Dulness?
39:24 • 2min
22
The Importance of a Few More Dull Men and Women Running the World
41:38 • 2min
23
Free Thought - Jonathan Floyd Thomas, Charlton and Jane Ridley
43:33 • 2min