To support our work and listen to additional content, see here: https://patreon.com/yourshelf and follow us on social media @_yourshelf_. In our latest, fifth episode of The YourShelf Podcast, Everything Is Both, our chief curator Juliano Zaffino (Jay) sits down with author Rebecca Dinerstein Knight to discuss books, Norway, screenplays, Jenny Slate, and Rebecca's second novel, Hex. For full show notes, see here: https://podcast.yourshelf.uk/episodes/5. Thanks for listening.
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Episode Notes
- Jay asks Rebecca about her bookshelves, the books that made her, and which authors she'd invite to a dinner party. (from 1:35)
- Rebecca begins the discussion with her first novel, The Sunlit Night, and the process involved in writing the screenplay for the film adaptation due out later in 2020. Rebecca and Jay discuss Rebecca's wide-ranging writing career, the impetus behind her latest novel Hex, creative friendships, obsession, the sophomore slump, and the doubleness of everything. (from 10:24)
- Finally, Rebecca hints at what her next projects are going to look like. (from 48:21)
- Jay recommends signing up to our Patreon for access to exclusive content, including a short bonus episode with more content from the interview, where Jay and Rebecca play a game of "Celebs Read Nice Tweets", and Rebecca answers some extra questions from Jay.
- Jay wraps up with all the books that were discussed in the episode and a few other books he recommends. Some of the books and authors we discussed in our latest episode include Kafka, Mark Strand, Louise Glück, Wallace Stevens, Frank O'Hara, Nicole Sealey, Noah Warren; All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Independent People by Halldór Laxness, Changing by Liv Ullmann; Dante, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert; Little Weirds by Jenny Slate, Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery, The Moomins by Tove Jansson, the short stories of Grace Paley, The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West, Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy, Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett; Michael Chabon, Walter Pater; Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino, A Burning by Megha Majumdar, and Riding With The Ghost by Justin Taylor. If you’re looking for even more recommendations, especially in the age of social distancing, Jay has you covered. Recently, he's read and enjoyed Olivia Laing's Funny Weather, Seán Hewitt's Tongues of Fire, Martha Sprackland's Citadel, Sam Riviere's After Fame, and Deborah Levy's memoirs Things I Don't Want to Know and The Cost of Living.
- Also, Jay reminds that you can order a copy of his book of poems, the debut publication of The YourShelf Press, on yourshelf.uk/press.
- Rebecca Dinerstein Knight closes with a reading of the stunning 'Pharmakon' chapter in her new second novel Hex. (from 58:49)
- Buy, read and review Hex online now, available from most bookstores! Rebecca's first novel The Sunlit Night is also available for purchase, and her debut poetry collection Lofoten is available digitally.
- Thanks for listening and tune in again soon for Episode Six!
