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  • J.K. Rowling / News / The Casual Vacancy

J.K. Rowling reads a passage from ‘The Casual Vacancy’ on BBC’s ‘A Culture Show’

by Keith Hawk · September 26, 2012

BBC’s A Culture Show is a weekly arts magazine program that is broadcast in the UK. According to their episode guide, J.K. Rowling was a recent guest on the show where she discussed a variety of topics and also read a passage from her new adult novel The Casual Vacancy, which is scheduled for release shortly.

The video for this show is only available for viewing in the UK at this link.

From the BBC: A Culture Show website:

James Runcie meets Harry Potter author JK Rowling, who reads from her first novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy, and discusses its ideas, characters and inspiration.

Harry Potter is one of the most successful publishing phenomena of our time, selling 450 million copies. Its success has transformed author JK Rowling from an impoverished single mother into one of Britain’s richest women. Since The Deathly Hallows was published in 2007, Rowling’s fans have been desperate to know what she was going to do next. The answer is The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adults with some very grown-up themes. The expectation and pressure are enormous.

Although most details are shrouded in secrecy, it is known to be set in the idyllic fictional English town of Pagford, where tensions gather around a local election which follows the death of a parish councillor. James Runcie meets the notoriously private writer in her hometown of Edinburgh, where she finally reveals the exact nature of the novel, with exclusive readings and in-depth discussion about its ideas, characters and inspiration. Rowling also discusses the pressure and pitfalls of following up the biggest literary phenomenon of a generation, describing how she finally moved on from Potter and the challenges of making the leap to writing fiction for adults.

We also remind readers that Rowling will be reading a passage from The Casual Vacancy on Good Morning America Thursday morning on ABC.

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