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Episode 60: Robin Coste Lewis
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Host Rachel Zucker speaks with Robin Coste Lewis, author of the 2015 National Book Award winning Voyage of the Sable Venus and poet laureate of Los Angeles, about when to say no, how to say no, wishing people would educate themselves on centuries-old African American intellectual tradition before asking her to respond to obvious questions, professionalism, calling in, her position as Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, the pressure, power and exhaustion of having to offering historical correctives, migration, celebrating black culture, archives, writing work that spans 38,000 years, photography, narrative as a story filled with holes, the arctic, brain damage, being a “baby writer” in her fifties, the value of having to confront mortality, environmentalism, research as devotion, the difference between beauty and prettiness, Cave Canem, Gwendolyn Brooks, loneliness, why she’s going to burn her diaries, Henri Matisse, and much more.
EXTRA RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 60
Books by Robin Coste Lewis
Voyage of the Sable Venus (Knopf, 2015)
Other Books and Writers Mentioned in the Episode
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser (Oxford University Press, 2012)
The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector (New Directions, 2018)
Anthology of Negro Poets (out of print)
Other Relevant Links
103 episodes
Archived series ("Inactive feed" status)
When? This feed was archived on February 29, 2024 07:08 (). Last successful fetch was on January 26, 2024 09:54 ()
Why? Inactive feed status. Our servers were unable to retrieve a valid podcast feed for a sustained period.
What now? You might be able to find a more up-to-date version using the search function. This series will no longer be checked for updates. If you believe this to be in error, please check if the publisher's feed link below is valid and contact support to request the feed be restored or if you have any other concerns about this.
Manage episode 220649025 series 1443177
Host Rachel Zucker speaks with Robin Coste Lewis, author of the 2015 National Book Award winning Voyage of the Sable Venus and poet laureate of Los Angeles, about when to say no, how to say no, wishing people would educate themselves on centuries-old African American intellectual tradition before asking her to respond to obvious questions, professionalism, calling in, her position as Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, the pressure, power and exhaustion of having to offering historical correctives, migration, celebrating black culture, archives, writing work that spans 38,000 years, photography, narrative as a story filled with holes, the arctic, brain damage, being a “baby writer” in her fifties, the value of having to confront mortality, environmentalism, research as devotion, the difference between beauty and prettiness, Cave Canem, Gwendolyn Brooks, loneliness, why she’s going to burn her diaries, Henri Matisse, and much more.
EXTRA RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 60
Books by Robin Coste Lewis
Voyage of the Sable Venus (Knopf, 2015)
Other Books and Writers Mentioned in the Episode
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser (Oxford University Press, 2012)
The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector (New Directions, 2018)
Anthology of Negro Poets (out of print)
Other Relevant Links
103 episodes
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