How To Proceed

Our guest in this episode is the French writer Édouard Louis. He talks about writing for your enemies, Black Lives Matter, Toni Morrison and ghosts at the table. Read more in our show notes here.

Talking to Louis is the British writer Nadifa Mohamed, one of three guest interviewers as Linn Ullmann takes some time off to finish her novel. You can read more about Mohamed and our two other guest interviewers here.

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Listen to the German author Jenny Erpenbeck reading an excerpt from her novel End of Days (translated into English by Susan Bernofsky).

Music by Kingocito and Sandra Kolstad. Artwork by Julius Vidarssønn Langhoff.

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Our guest in this episode is the German writer Jenny Erpenbeck. She talks about hope and despair, time and empathy, writing routines, refugees, and the importance of things. Read more in our show notes here.

Talking to Erpenbeck is the Norwegian writer Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, one of three guest interviewers as Linn Ullmann takes some time off to finish her novel. You can read more about Skomsvold and our two other guest interviewers here.

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Listen to the Canadian poet Moez Surani reading three poems: "Best Decisions of my Life So Far", "Lullaby for a Waning Empire" and "The Day We Lay in Bed Like John & Yoko", all from his latest poetry collection, Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real?

Music by Kingocito and Sandra Kolstad. Artwork by Julius Vidarssønn Langhoff.

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In this episode is the Canadian poet Moez Surani talks about the violence of language, about identity, and the distance between where we are and where we belong. And about happiness.

Talking to Surani is the award-winning Norwegian writer Eivind Hofstad Evjemo, one of three guest interviewers as Linn Ullmann takes some time off to finish her novel. You can read more about Evjemo and our two other guest interviewers here, and check out our show notes here.

Music by Kingocito and Sandra Kolstad. Artwork by Julius Vidarssønn Langhoff.

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The pandemic is a portal between one world and another, an opportunity to image another world, says the award-winning Indian author Arundhati Roy.

In this episode, Roy talks about fathers, fascism, beauty, love, and the search for words. Talking to Roy is the critically acclaimed British-Somali author Nadifa Mohamed, the first of three guest interviewers as Linn Ullmann takes some time off to finish her novel. You can read more about Mohamed and our two other guest interviewers in our show notes.

Music by Kingocito and Sandra Kolstad. Artwork by Julius Vidarssønn Langhoff.

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Listen to the American poet Mary Ruefle read three short texts, Self-Criticism, Personalia and grey sadness. All from her book My Private Property.

 Music by Kingocito and Sandra Kolstad. Artwork by Julius Vidarssønn Langhoff.

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We have a globally out of control situation, says Mary Ruefle.

In this epsiode she talks about reading and writing, about clarity and fear, about menopause and the freedom of invisibility, and about being in the margins. And of course about dogs.

Be sure to check out our show notes for this episode, including some of Mary Ruefle's erasure poetry, right here.

Music by Kingocito and Sandra Kolstad. Artwork by Julius Vidarssønn Langhoff.

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George Saunders reads an excerpt from his New Yorker essay “Trump Days” and another excerpt from his critically acclaimed novel Lincoln in the Bardo.

Music by Kingocito and Sandra Kolstad. Artwork by Julius Vidarssønn Langhoff.

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Is literature a political force? Yes, says George Saunders.

In this episode, he talks about Trump, civility and the public discourse of our time. On Kindness and Meanness. On form and revision. Voice, memory and empathy, and of course about the living and the dead.

Music by Kingocito and Sandra Kolstad. Artwork by Julius Vidarssønn Langhoff.

Be sure to check out our show notes for this episode, right here.

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