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