'In this moment, I had to be there' — Patricia Lockwood on writing about the life and death of a child
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English - May 31, 2021 00:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsBooks Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: 'If felt new and it was hard' — Jhumpa Lahiri on writing in Italian
The privilege of writing about the loss of a child: Women's Prize shortlisted author Patricia Lockwood on No One Is Talking About This which is laugh-out-loud funny in the first half, and is cry-out-loud devastating in the second half.
And Sincerely, Ethel Malley in which Stephen Orr resuscitates the great Australian literary hoax of Ern Malley but with a twist: he reimagines a life for Ern's made-up sister, a woman called Ethel.