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A Mingling | State of Mind
Siri Hustvedt
‘My empathy may become a vehicle of insight for me and therefore help me to help you or it may debilitate me altogether, make me so sad I am no good to you whatsoever.’
Granta 166: Generations Online
Generation Gap
‘We meet at various points in the great swathes of the past that neither of us were alive to witness.’
Allen Bratton on a daytrip to a castle with his older boyfriend.
Generation Gap
‘Listening to three white poets, whom I suspect are academics, talk about the state of poetry.’
Oluwaseun Olayiwola eavesdrops on an older generation.
Generation Gap
‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
Generation Gap
‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’
Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.
Generation Gap
‘A moment now swallowed in embarrassment, I asked a question only a young person might ask an older one.’
Lynne Tillman on trying to understand what makes a generation.
Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt has a PhD in English literature from Columbia University and is a lecturer in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. Her most recent novel, The Blazing World, was longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and won the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. She has also published two books of essays, Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting and A Plea for Eros. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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