Alexandra Kleeman
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.6 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Alexandra Kleeman is the author ofIntimations, a short story collection, and the novelYou Too Can Have A Body Like Mine, which was awarded the 2016 Bard Fiction Prize. She is an Assistant Professor at the New School and her second novel, Something New Under the Sun, is forthcoming from Hogarth Press. Alexandra sat down outside of a busy coffeeshop near Central Park to talk about being trapped in our own bodies, her process, teaching creative writing, and more.
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| 0:34.6 | Hey writers panel listeners |
| 0:36.6 | It's me, Ben Blacker. |
| 0:38.8 | I wanted to quickly apologize for the audio on today's podcast. |
| 0:44.7 | I recorded a couple of episodes while I was out in New York back in October, and as often happens with these out of studio episodes, the audio is not great, and I am loath to ask |
| 0:57.7 | strangers to meet me in a place that's quieter than a coffee shop. So there's a lot of background |
| 1:05.2 | noise. We did the best we could to minimize that. I don't recommend listening with headphones on this one. It may, |
| 1:13.8 | it may hurt you. I do want to thank my pal, Tony Thaxton, for helping me clean this up. |
| 1:21.1 | Tony did a great job with a very difficult audio track. I did want to release the episode, |
| 1:30.3 | though, because the guest, Alexander Cleman, |
| 1:37.8 | has some amazing, brilliant thoughts about writing in the process of writing. Alex Clemen is a terrific prose writer. You may have picked up her book. You too can have a body like mine, |
| 1:43.6 | which came out a couple years ago. |
| 1:45.7 | I also recommend her book of short stories, which I think came out earlier this year called Intimations. |
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