🏫On writing and translating The Topeka School, with Ben Lerner and Jakuta Alikavazovic🏫
The Shakespeare and Company Interview
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The Speed of Language Collapse
I was just remembering like the cracking of the voice even you know so the way the way that voices I mean this is so much a novel about him testing out different regimes of speech and also learning that he has only limited control over which voices get in him or come through him. It's not as broadly familiar as the spelling bee but there's like one person in every room who's aware of this bizarre quote that's itYeah and then if you're not you don't believe it because you don't understand it until you see it.
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