Rachel Zucker talks with Sheila Heti and Sarah Manguso about literary friendship, Sarah’s two recent books, Sheila’s manuscript in progress, maternal ambivalence, uncertainty, sacrifice of self, envy, curiosity, being a daughter, attachment and unattachment, shame, the sickening state of wondering whether or not to have children, abandonment, money, the things we cannot choose, choosing intolerable feelings, whiteness, class, the poetics of motherhood, purity, polluted writing, and motherhood as a sexuality category.
EXTRA MATERIALS FOR EPISODE 37Books by Sheila Heti
Motherhood (Henry Holt & Co., 2018)
All Our Happy Days Are Stupid (McSweeney’s Publishing, 2015)
Women in Clothes (Blue Rider Press, 2014), edited with Heidi Julavits and Leanna Shapton
The Middle Stories (McSweeney’s Publishing, 2012)
How Should a Person Be? (Henry Holt & Co., 2012)
We Need A Horse (Mcsweeney’s McMullens, 2011)
The Chairs Are Where the People Go (FSG, 2011)
Ticknor (FSG, 2006)
Prose
300 Arguments (Graywolf, 2017)
Ongoingness: The End of a Diary (Graywolf, 2015)
The Guardians: An Elegy (FSG, 2012)
The Two Kinds of Decay (FSG, 2008)
Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape (McSweeney's Books, 2007)
Poetry
Siste Viator (Four Way Books, 2006)
The Captain Lands in Paradise (Alice James Books, 2002)
Other Books, Writers & Artists Mentioned in the Episode
Molly Peacock
Amanda Stern
Yaddo
David Lehman
Cynthia Ozick
Carmen Giménez Smith
Eula Biss
Annie Dillard
Maggie Nelson
Heidi Julavits
Carrot Top by Jules Renard (FSG, 1975)
Paradise, Piece by Piece by Molly Peacock (Riverhead, 1998)
100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write by Sarah Ruhl (FSG, 2015)
Museum of Accidents by Rachel Zucker (Wave Books, 2009)
Other Relevant Links
Sheila Heti interviews Wayne Koestenbaum, Matthew Rohrer & Rachel Zucker for The Believer
Conversation between Rachel and Sarah about motherhood in Candor Magazine
Video of Rachel giving birth to her son Judah
Sarah Manguso’s essay, The Great Shattering, in Harper’s Magazine
from A Kentucky of Mothers by Dana Ward
Episode 81: Commonplace goes to Taiwan, Part 2
Episode 80: Commonplace goes to Taiwan, Part 1
Episode 79: Christine Larusso
Episode 78: Anne Boyer
Episode 77: Tina Chang
Episode 76: Ada Limón
Episode 75: Victoria Chang
Episode 74: Rachel Zucker's SoundMachine
Episode 73: Jennifer Croft (Translation Series Ep. 3)
Episode 72: Ilya Kaminsky
Episode 71: Mira Jacob
Episode 70: Alicia Jo Rabins
Episode 69: Live Reading with Brown, Joseph, Meitner Parker, Pico, Tolbert, and Yanyi
Episode 68: Live Reading w/ Calvocoressi, Falkner, Gay and Mark
Episode 67: John Biewen
Episode 66: Sarah Gambito
Episode 65: Hillary Frank
Episode 64: John Keene (Translation Series, Ep. 2)
Episode 63: Juliana Spahr
Episode 62: Khadijah Queen
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