Episode 85 of the KWL Podcast contains an interview with Scacchi Koul conducted by Johanna Schneller about Scacchi’s new book One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter.

Please note that this interview contains adult language which might not be appropriate for all listening audiences.

In the interview, Johanna and Scaachi talk about:

The story behind Scacchi’s Twitter profile picture
How Scacchi inherited her sense of humor from her father and the role humor has played in her life
How men always get to be “complicated” while women are “difficult”
The sixth grade writing assignment that might have been the spark to Scacchi’s writing career
How “sitting in a room pouring out bitterness” might be the only possible job she could have based on her skill set
How most of the content of the book is taboo to her family
The topic of “shaking up complacent white media” and a discussion about the fiery debate in the Canadian literary community over race, representation and free speech after a short column titled “Winning the Appropriation Prize” was published in early May
The right amount of time required before writing something; the concept of comedy being just tragedy after time.
Scacchi’s concern over having just the right balance of humor for this book and the interesting back and forths between writer and editor
The use of “being arranged” as a verb when referring to arranged marriages
How The Walrus was a magazine that changed Scaachi’s life and made her want to be a writer, and how, with recent events, all that has changed in a significant way
The writers who mattered to Scaachi
How Scaachi went into writing because she thought it might help other people feel less lonely

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