Esther Kinsky in conversation with Gareth Evans: Esther Kinsky, author of River (tr. Iain Galbraith), Grove, Rombo and most recently Seeing Further (all tr. Caroline Schmidt), speaks with Gareth Evans, writer, editor and film/event producer. The discussion touches on the physicality of the writing process, telling a story without plot as the structuring principle, making the sensory presence of the world felt in language, and the personal and collective histories that words bear. Listen here.
Below for reading list of the books mentioned in the episode:
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin, tr. Harry Zohn (1968)
The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin, tr. Howard Eiland & Kevin McLaughlin (1999)
About Looking by John Berger (1980)
Understanding a Photograph by John Berger, ed. Geoff Dyer (2013)
A Transparent Lion by Attila József, tr. Michael Castro (2007)
The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai, tr. George Szirtes (2016)
Recorded at Young Space in September 2024. Edited by Frankie Wells. Music by Kwes Darko.
