11 | The Day's Residue

Clare and Yves are joined by author Helen Garner, whose latest book The Yellow Notebook (Text, 2020) is an edited collection of the author’s diaries--or what you might call a self-archive.

Episode 2 of the Archive Fever podcast, hosted by Claire Wright and Yves Rees, titled "11 | The Day's Residue" was published on August 27, 2020 and runs 49 minutes.

August 27, 2020 ·49m · Archive Fever

Summary

Clare and Yves are joined by author Helen Garner, whose latest book The Yellow Notebook (Text, 2020) is an edited collection of the author’s diaries--or what you might call a self-archive. Helen explores the psychic necessity of diary keeping, the tendency of memory to smooth over our own crimes, and the truth to be found in self-research. The group discusses their shared motto and letters that elicit a sweat of fury, before reflecting on what it means to bear the blows in life and hand them out.

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