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In Conversation
Katharina Volckmer & Eliza Clark
‘People are obsessed with authenticity – in a post-reality-TV, post-confessional-journalism world, fiction is simply not enough.’
In Conversation
Avni Doshi & Sophie Mackintosh
‘I do wonder to what extent writing about motherhood is actually writing about being mothered’.
In Conversation
Anthony Caleshu & Peter Gizzi
‘Words are haunted. Think of it: as long as there have been soldiers there have been poets. I have often felt that being a poet is a form of civil disobedience.’
In Conversation
Andrzej Tichý & Nichola Smalley
‘In many ways, every author is a kind of extremely complex sampler.’
Crimes of Space
Eyal Weizman & Rana Dasgupta
‘Architecture can be employed as a form of violence and violation.’
In Conversation
Saskia Vogel & Jen Calleja
‘Narrative is control, dominance, purposeful withholding, flirting’
In Conversation
Kathryn Scanlan & Kate Zambreno
‘When a day is not structured by appointments, meetings, driving to work, taking lunch, driving home, shopping (i.e. capitalism), its soft, loose (wild?) shapelessness becomes apparent.’
In Conversation
Jenny Offill & Mark O'Connell
‘This isn’t the end of the world. It’s history going about its business. This isn’t the last apocalypse by a long shot.’
Jenny Offill, author of Weather, talks to Mark O’Connell, author of Notes from the Apocalypse.
Interview
Jon Fosse
‘To me writing is a kind of listening. I don’t know what I am listening to, but I am listening!’
In Conversation
Morgan Parker & Rachel Long
‘Everyone should be thinking about how they do their thing specifically, how they can use their influences combined with their own language, music and experience.’
Interview
Teju Cole
‘What is this elsewhere that one is longing to be in? Part of the answer to this question, for me, is Switzerland.’
In Conversation
Fernanda Melchor & Sophie Hughes
‘It’s easy to forget the power of words in an era ruled by profuse, beautiful and entrancing images.’
