Julia Cohen’s and Abby Hagler’s Original Obsessions: Interview with Katherine Indermaur
Interview Katherine Indermaur, author of I|I (Seneca Review Books, 2022)
Interview Katherine Indermaur, author of I|I (Seneca Review Books, 2022)
Julia Cohen's and Abby Hagler’s Original Obsessions An Interview with Min Kang Original Obsessions seeks to discover the origins of writerly curiosity, the gestation and development of these imaginings — focusing on early [...]
"I can imagine writing as a Eucharistic event. In the mouth. In house. I can imagine a sentence which punches me in the stomach. Noli me tangere: touch me not. Words said by Jesus to Mary Magdalene when she encountered him post-crucifixion in a passage of writing considered to be some of the most difficult to interpret in the whole of the New Testament. The dominant prevailing historic read of Mary Magdalene is that she has a credibility issue." from Rancher by Selah Saterstrom (Burrow Press, 2021)
Julia Cohen and Abby Hagler interview Lauren Russell, author of "Descent."
Original Obsessions seeks to discover the origins of writerly curiosity -- the gestation and development of these imaginings -- focusing on early fixations that burrowed into an author's psyche and that reappear in their current book. In this installment, Tarpaulin Sky interviews Shamala Gallagher, author of Late Morning When the World Burns.
Abby Hagler reviews Selah Saterstrom's brilliant Ideal Suggestions: Essays In Divinatory Poetics (Essay Press, 2017): "A book dedicated to not only showing the link between the diviner and the writer, but also to helping a reader recognize the diviner within."