Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers
Arts:Books
'It felt liberating to find that voice and put it on paper...Some restrictions can be creative.'
Hello! Katharina Volckmer talks about her debut novel, The Appointment (Fitzcarraldo Editions), a TLS 'Book of the Year 2020', and one critics have called 'a darkly funny untangling of national and sexual identity' (The Guardian).
And what a great way to kick off our 'Finding Room' series with a novel set entirely in one room...
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Rippling Points
Buy THE APPOINTMENT here
Reference Points
Books and Writers
Thomas Bernhard - The Old Masters
Siri Hustvedt - The Blindfold
Franz Kafka
Ottessa Moshfegh
Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint
Articles
Katharina in conversation with RL Goldberg for the Paris Review
Katharina on 'that strange German silence' that persists over the Holocaust for the Guardian
Ideal lockdown literary listening.
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