Interviews
Ways Of Knowing: An Interview With Sarah Shin
Every recollection is an imaginative act. Even when serving the matter of facts – such as a recording, a video, or a photograph – the illusion of reality is created by an interpretation in the present moment. To remember is to create. Any testimony I can bring about the conversation I had with Sarah Shin, co-founder and director of Silver Press and Spiral House, is a fictional one. Luckily for me, Sarah concurs with this notion.
Aea Varfis-van Warmelo on Her Book "Attention Seeking Behaviour" and Writing It Like a Liar
While reading a book of fiction, I often don’t get immersed in its world until at least one-third of the way in. It takes me that many pages to absorb the characters, get invested in their journey and fully land myself in the world that the writer has created. This was not the case while reading Aea Varfis-van Warmelo’s Attention Seeking Behaviour. I landed into its world by the time I reached the twelfth page and paused to write in my reMarkable, ‘This book is outstanding’. Perhaps that was not only because the book is written admirably, but also because of its genre-bending form – while it’s characterised as fiction, it’s not entirely one.
Joanna Biggs on Her Book “A Life of One’s Own,” Autofiction, and the Modern Review
This past November, I carried out an interview with Joanna Biggs, contributing editor to the Yale Review. Biggs, born in London and based in New York, formerly an editor at TheLondon Review of Books as well as at Harper’sMagazine, and author of two books (All Day Long: A Portrait of Britain at Work, and A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again) is a master of autofiction – narratives that centre around the self.