Dear Readers,
In case you missed it last week, my writing was featured in a wonderful publication.
invited me to write about James Joyce’s Dubliners for his new series called The Books We ❤️ Club. I was thrilled to collaborate at the seeds of this project. Troy is writes gorgeous fiction and shares both wisdom and comedy (often together) through two newsletters here on Substack: and .
Today’s podcast is part of a series to accompany my current serialized novel, An Interpreter in Vienna, as we investigate the truth in fiction. You can also listen to the podcast via Apple or Spotify or in the Substack app. As always, feel free to share any of your work related to the conversation. Thank you!
A full AI-created transcript can be accessed on the desktop version.
Keywords:
The Apartment Ellipsis
Apartments in Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock
Apartments in An Interpreter in Vienna
Chronotope, everyday life, city culture, layers of the city, identity creation…
Hope
Considerations for your work:
How do your characters interact with their domestic spaces? Are they spaces of their creation or are they at odds with them? Are they safe or dangerous places?
To what extent do the interior domestic spaces in your fiction reflect culture? Consider the culture of the setting as well as other cultures the characters may bring into that space.
How does the apartment living space offer a way to understand at once your character(s) within it and the city in which it resides? How does the rest of the building affect the individual?
Feel free to share your related work or recommendations in the comments.
Texts:
The rest of the references are listed in my work which I read from; free download here from HKU Scholars Hub
My lecture at Pratt: From Theory to Fiction
“The Interior Collection” from
- Bloomsbury paintings (& a great newsletter)“Paint it, Cream” from
- a short story with a mysterious antique chest of drawers (& a great newsletter)
The Apartment Ellipsis in Fiction | Episode 53