Show Notes
Every story, they say, needs a beginning, a middle and an end; every story needs a setting.
What if that isn’t true? Can you write when everything is in flux, when you are unmoored from places, and when the time is out of joint?
Tanjil Rashid is joined by Amit Chaudhuri, a singer, composer, poet, critic and novelist, to discuss how a story is less important – and less interesting – than the movement of life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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