Different Approaches to Life Writing

Ali and Penny come together to discuss life writing this week. They have both used different approaches to life writing and they discuss why they made the choices they did and how they might do it differently in the future. It's also an episode in which Ali reveals she doesn't really like memoirs (even though she just wrote one) and Penny that she hopes her life is going to be boring enough in the future that she never feels compelled to write one (although she's very partial to the essay).

Links

Swimming In Hampstead ladies pond - Daunt Books

Upon This Rock - Essay by John Jeramiah Sullivan

Constellations - Sinead Gleeson

I am I am I am - Maggie O'Farrell

The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography - Andy Sharp

My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh

You can find all the books mentioned on the podcast at Bookshop.org