Patricia Lockwood and Andr茅 Aciman
From fragments of stories we find scrolling our screens to glimpses of past lives that overlay visits to a city like Rome. Laurence Scott talks to writers capturing the moment.
Patricia Lockwood and Andr茅 Aciman share their sense of the way digital media, and the layers of history press in on our sense of the present moment as they talk about their new books with presenter Laurence Scott.
Patricia Lockwood is a poet and author of the memoir Priestdaddy. Her new novel No One is Talking About This considers the way a world saturated by social media memes, 24/7 news and doom scrolling can become fractured by a health emergency.
Andr茅 Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name and editor of the Proust Project 鈥� looks at writers including WG Sebald and Constantine Cavafy and the films of Eric Rohmer and what the present tense means to writers who can't grasp the here and now in his new Essay collection Homo Irrealis.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
You can find a playlist of Prose and Poetry on the Free Thinking programme website featuring interviews with authors including
Olivia Laing /programmes/b0b7mryz
Umberto Eco /programmes/b06qmcqn
Rebecca Solnit /programmes/m0008wc1
Ben Lerner, Derek Owusu and J J Bola /programmes/m000b0mx
Teju Cole /programmes/b07yb85h
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