Craftwork Episode 25: Braided Essays, Collective Solitude, & the Objective Correlative w/ Kasia Van Schaik

Listen to Craftwork Episode 25: Braided Essays, Collective Solitude, & the Objective Correlative w/ Kasia Van Schaik.

In this interview, we chat with Kasia Van Schaik about reverse outlining, asking “what if”, sublimating emotion through landscape, and so much more.  

Kasia Van Schaik is the author of the Giller Prize-nominated story collection We Have Never Lived on Earth and the forthcoming book of memoir and cultural criticism, Women Among Monuments. With Myra Bloom, she is the co-editor of the essay collection, Shelter in Text: Essays on Dwelling and Refuge. Kasia’s writing has appeared in Electric Literature, the LA Review of Books, Room, The Rumpus, the Best Canadian Poetry, and the CBC. Kasia holds a PhD in literature from McGill University and is assistant professor of English and co-director of Creative Writing at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Wolastoqiyik territory. 

Books mentioned in this episode:  

  • Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë 
  • The Secret Garden — Frances Hodgson Burnett  
  • Autobiography of Red — Anne Carson 
  • Boyhood; Youth; Summertime — J. M. Coetzee 
  • Outline; Transit; Kudos — Rachel Cusk 
  • The Days of Abandonment; the Neapolitan Quartet — Elena Ferrante 
  • “The Robber Bridegroom” — Brothers Grimm 
  • Sweet Days of Discipline — Fleur Jaeggy 
  • Lucy — Jamaica Kincaid 
  • Her Body and Other Parties — Carmen Maria Machado 
  • Housekeeping — Marilynne Robinson 
  • Rings of Saturn — W. G. Sebald 
  • Flights — Olga Tokarczuk 

Craftwork Episode 20: Girlhood, Defamiliarization, & Poetic Excavation w/ Emily Banks

Listen to Craftwork Episode 20: Girlhood, Defamiliarization, & Poetic Excavation w/ Emily Banks.

In this interview, we chat with Emily Banks about posthumous publications, linguistic allergies, the atomic nuts and bolts of imagery, and so much more. 

Emily Banks is the author of Mother Water (Lynx House Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in PlumeCopper Nickel32 PoemsThe RumpusCutBankMid-American Review, and other journals. She publishes scholarship on American gothic literature, runs The Shirley Jackson Society, and is currently editing The Oxford Handbook of Shirley Jackson. She holds an MFA from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. from Emory University. She lives in Indianapolis and teaches at Franklin College. 

Books, poems, and stories mentioned in this episode:

  • “Filling Station”; “In the Waiting Room” – Elizabeth Bishop
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
  • Turn Up the Ocean – Tony Hoagland
  • “Dorothy and My Grandmother and the Sailors”; Hangsaman; The Haunting of Hill House; We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson
  • Bliss Montage; Severance – Ling Ma
  • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy – Jenny Odell
  • Middle Distance – Stanley Plumly
  • Pamela – Samuel Richardson
  • Modern Poetry – Diane Seuss

Craftwork Episode 18: Ekphrasis, Sinuous Sentences, & the Logic of Sound w/ Sarah Bernstein

Listen to Craftwork Episode 18: Ekphrasis, Sinuous Sentences, & the Logic of Sound w/ Sarah Bernstein.

In this interview, we chat with Sarah Bernstein about contemplation, finding time for writing, capturing the rush of language, and so much more.

Sarah Bernstein is the author of two novels, The Coming Bad Days and Study for Obedience, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is from Montreal and lives in the Scottish Highlands.

Books and stories mentioned in this episode:

  • Hysteric; Whore – Nelly Arcan
  • Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
  • The Moonstone; The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
  • “A Mown Lawn” – Lydia Davis
  • Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth Franklin
  • The Book of Questions – Edmond Jabès
  • The Haunting of Hill House; “The Lottery”; The Sundial; We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson
  • The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
  • The Place of Shells – Mai Ishizawa
  • In the Wake: On Blackness and Being – Christina Sharpe
  • The House Next Door – Anne Rivers Siddons
  • The Door – Magda Szabó
  • Clean – Alia Trabucco Zerán

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