The Secret Life of Writers by Tablo

Sinéad Gleeson on the power of your own story


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'To commit to art is to commit to living.'
'I do believe in agency and I do believe in the power of the story and the power of your own story.'
Featuring: the Irish storytelling tradition; writing about illness; resilience; the agency in telling your own story; books and music as saviours; the artists whose lives and art were beacons of hope; advice from John Banville; on interviewing; watching New York go by with George Saunders; how to decide what goes into an anthology; a love of the short story; the elasticity of the essay; overriding fear; ghosts in the family; the novel-in-progress, and the upcoming music anthology Sinéad has edited with Kim Gordon.
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