The Matterhorn: truth in fiction
The Matterhorn with Dr. Kathleen Waller
The Apartment Ellipsis in Fiction | Episode 53
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The Apartment Ellipsis in Fiction | Episode 53

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Dear Readers,

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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!

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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.

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The Matterhorn: truth in fiction
The Matterhorn with Dr. Kathleen Waller
The Matterhorn is for writers and curious minds from author and academic Dr. Kathleen Waller.
Each week in this new season, Kathleen shares a chapter of her serialized novels - A Hong Kong Story & An Interpreter in Vienna - and uses it as a catalyst to discuss the layers of literature and how you can use these in your own writing.
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