Writers on Memory, Language & the...
Writers on Memory, Language & the Power of the Unconscious
The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society: Books, Film,... by Mia Funk
S15 · E1181
Dec 12, 2025
11:50
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How can we use negative spaces in fiction to engage with readers’ imaginations? How are memory and trauma passed onto us through language? How do we become more than the stories we tell ourselves?

KATIE KITAMURA (Author, Audition) emphasizes that a book is created in collaboration with the reader and how negative spaces in the narrative allow for reader interpretation.

PAUL LYNCH (Booker Prize-winning Novelist, Prophet Song) on the richness of the English language in Ireland, shaped by the overlay of English onto Irish.

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