Joanna Kavenna: 'We all make fictions about the future'
After hearing from Helga Schubert, Ben Sorgiovanni, Julian George and Rachida Lamrabet, we bring this Winter series of podcasts to a close with Joanna Kavenna and her short story Notes on the Future.
Kavenna tells us how this story was born from an obsession with patterns and a robust detachment from her characters.
"I like to have quite questing narrators," she says, "who are desperately trying to find meaning in a world that keeps depriving them of meaning. Which is probably quite autobiographical."
When you’re writing, Kavenna continues, you’re constantly forced up against the gap between…
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