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3.3 In the Editing Room with Ruth Ozeki and Rebecca Evans (EH)
3.3 In the Editing Room with Ruth Ozeki and Rebecca Evans (EH)
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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Mar 3, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
Ruth Ozeki, whose most recent novel is The Book of Form and Emptiness, speaks with critic Rebecca Evans and guest host Emily Hyde. This is a conversation about talking books, the randomness and serendipity of library shelves, and what novelists can learn in the editing room of a movie like Mutant Hunt. Ozeki is an ordained Zen Buddhist priest, and her novels unfold as warm-hearted parables that have been stuffed full of the messiness of contemporary life. The Book of Form and Emptiness telescopes from global supply chains to the aisles of a Michaels craft store and from a pediatric psychiatry ward to the enchanted stacks of the public library. The exigencies of environmental storytelling arch over this conversation. Evans asks Ozeki questions of craft (how to move a story through time, how to bring it to an end) that become questions of practice (how to listen to the objects stories tell, how to declutter your sock drawer). And we learn Ozeki’s theory of closure: her novels always pull together at the end so that readers are free to continue pondering the questions they raise.
Mentioned in this episode:
Mutant Hunt, directed by Tim Kinkaid (1987)
My Year of Meats, Ruth Ozeki (1998)
All Over Creation, Ruth Ozeki (2003)
The Book of Form and Emptiness, Ruth Ozeki (2021)
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo (2014)
Aarthi Vadde is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. Email: aarthi.vadde@duke.edu. John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative. Email: plotz@brandeis.edu.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Mutant Hunt, directed by Tim Kinkaid (1987)
My Year of Meats, Ruth Ozeki (1998)
All Over Creation, Ruth Ozeki (2003)
The Book of Form and Emptiness, Ruth Ozeki (2021)
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo (2014)
Aarthi Vadde is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. Email: aarthi.vadde@duke.edu. John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative. Email: plotz@brandeis.edu.
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Released:
Mar 3, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Paul Copp, “The Body Incantatory: Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism” (Columbia UP, 2014): Paul Copp‘s new book, The Body Incantatory: Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism (Columbia University Press, 2014), focuses on Chinese interpretations and uses of two written dharani during the last few centuries of the first ... by New Books in Buddhist Studies