It’s been a while. The vagaries of modern life have been costive, fluid, and mobile but also weirdly fusty. So, I thought I’ll quickly pull together some of the things I read these past few days along with an interview with Anne Carson done by a shaking, nervous, smitten Linn Ullmann at the Louisiana Festival this year. There’s just something so serene to see an author as accomplished as Ullmann herself, trembling in the face of having to interview her favourite writer.

As much as I love everything that the Louisiana Channel puts out, this interview has by far superseded everything I’ve seen on there (including my most favourite Rachel Cusk interview). And as much as I’ve read and admired Carson’s poetry and essays so far, I had no idea that she’d be such a delightful interviewee! The places she goes in her answers, the ease and casual charm with which she takes us along is remarkable. There is a lightness, even fun, to it all, that make the conversations, topics, everything seem so accessible. I listened to the interview for the first time while working out — that’s a feat!