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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: You Write Because You Want to Feel Free: Katie Kitamura and Alexander Manshel (SW)
Description: Although Katie Kitamura feels free when she writesâfree from the âsoup of everyday life,â from the political realities that weigh upon her, and even at times from the limits of her own thinkingâshe is keenly aware of the unfreedoms her novels explore. Katie, author of the award-winning Intimacies (2021), talks with critic Alexander Manshel about the darker corners of the human psyche and the inescapable contours of history that shape her fiction. Alexander and Katie explore how she brings these tensions to âthe space of interpretation, where the book existsâ and places trust in her readers to dwell there thoughtfully...