Jen Calleja on Time and Goblins

'I want the story the story to be as disorientating for the reader as it is for me...I'm not trying to offer an answer or a safe and complete world...'

The incredibly talented Jen Calleja joins the RP Pod to talk about her short story collection, I'm Afraid That's All We've Got Time For (Prototype Publishing), and Goblins (Rough Trade Books), a personal exploration of 'goblinery.'

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Rippling Points:

• That's all we've got time for: setting 'temporal parameters' for writing a story
• Is it really the way it is? Working with and against lessons learned in youth

Buy I'M AFRAID THAT'S ALL WE'VE GOT TIME FOR here

Buy GOBLINS here

 

Reference Points

Books and Writers

• Jen Calleja's poetry collection, SERIOUS JUSTICE
• Interview with the writer Megan Nolan
• The Complete Short Stories of Leonora Carrington

Films

• Labyrinth (1986: Jim Henson)

Artists

• Paula Rego
• Rachel Louise Hodgson

Ideal lockdown literary listening. 

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