In part three of This Writing Life's chat with American writer Vendela Vida about her latest novel The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty, we begin by asking: 'Why Casablanca?'
----more----After some exploration of labyrinths (and stupid questions), we move onto:
- art, stories and constant change
- 'A story is something that happens, after which nothing is ever the same'
- characters (and Vida) on the verge of...adulthood?
- parenthood, acting, and playing at selfhood
- Reeves, Aretha, Sabine: the various selves of Vida's heroine
- 'I know what her name is...but I'm not going to tell you'
- humour, trauma and The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty
- 'Distract, distract, distract': that's entertainment?!
- Vida on Amy Schumer, comedy and the internet
- why Vida goes to the library to use the internet
- 'If I want to read a book at night, if I had internet, it would not happen'
- Vida's preparation for a cultural evening (and why she hates dinner parties)
Part 4 (of 4) to follow.
