Part 2 of Vendela Vida's Writing Life podcast begins with a discussion of performance: parenthood as performance, self as performance, acting as performance. ----more----From here we sashay to:
- the problems of meditation
- when are we truest to ourselves?
- acting and announcing winners at the Academy Awards
- how parents should praise their children's art works
- writing and an essential self?
- writing by hand and how Vida writes her fiction
- fiction, rhythm and 'top spin'
- getting lost in life and art
- Vida's unfinished novels
- writing in the second person (singular)
- look in the mirror and say, You can do this...
- gender and travel
Part 3 to follow.
