How do authors create their masterpieces? What inspires their stories? Join Davin Malasarn, co-founder of the Granum Foundation, as he interviews writers about craft and the writing life.
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episode 6: Jenny Boully: Imagination and Its Consequences
Jenny Boully, 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and author of Betwixt and Between: Essays on the Writing Life, The Book of Beginnings and Endings, The Body, not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them, and other works joins us from Bennington, Vermont, for Episode 6 of The Artist's Statement Podcast.
Boully discusses the origins of her recent books and how her work bridges genres.
"I think when the mind is at odds with itself or wrestling with itself, which is what essays do, I find that if I can switch my approach, or switch my voice, or put on a different hat at times, then I can better get at something," says Boully.
She chats about astronomy as a source of inspiration and how her childhood experiences, and the stories of Peter Pan and Wendy Darling, led to her becoming a writer. She also reflects on how her writing has evolved from abstract to more accessible as a result of her growing older.
Boully reads her essay "On the Voyager Golden Records" from Betwixt and Between.
Host: Davin Malasarn.
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