Welcome to Let it be easy with Susie Moore.

Good morning, good morning from, as I record this a gorgeous very hot morning in Miami.

There's been all sorts of heat warnings this September which is so interesting because I thought

September was kind of meant to be a bit cooler but here we are no complaints I'll

take it all especially as an English gal who didn't grow up with the

son every single day. Today the topic of this episode I've had in my notes for

a while and for some reason whenever I've sat down to record on this topic

I've always pushed this one aside which means one of two things. Number one it's

probably not a topic I think is good enough to bring to you or robust enough or

secondly it feels important really important and I want to do it well and I want to do it

right for you. So here we go. Let me know what you think.

Do you at suzy.more on Instagram I love love love hearing your podcast feedback.

Today we are talking about the death of the author,

which is an old essay by this French literary critic called Roland Bart.

Now, what this essay breaks down essentially

is once an author or an artist or a creator

releases something into the world, maybe it's a novel,

maybe it's a poem, maybe it's a screenplay.

The interpretation of that piece of art no longer belongs to the author.

So maybe the author had an intention to write a screenplay that's all about cultural criticism or

highlighting racism or speaking about inequality or speaking about fun and

female relationships whatever it may be.

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