Ania Bas, artist and debut author of the darkly comic ODD HOURS, about a misanthropic supermarket check-out girl who is finding herself despite her awful job, her irritating friends, her chaotic family and her terrible love life.
Ania chats about:
- her education in Poland and how her early television viewing was formative
- how her career in visual arts led to writing and how it still informs her work.
- how she schedules non-negotiable writing time
- how she dons and alter-ego while she is at her keyboard in order to overcome imposter syndrome
- her influences and how they have led to her enforcing rules on herself to push her work forward.
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Odd Hours by Ania BasHost: Kate Sawyer Twitter:
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The Stranding by Kate Sawyer &
This Family (coming May 2023. Available to pre-order now!)Ania's recommendations:
A book for fan’s of Ania’s work: Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
A book Ania has always loved: Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
A book that’s been published recently or is coming soon: The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson
Other books discussed in this episode: The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith, The Secret Diary of Adiran Mole, aged 13 and 3/4 by Sue Townsend
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