EPISODE · Jan 9, 2025 · 1H 39M
It's About Already Living: Josh Cohen's "How To Live. What To Do: In Search of Ourselves in Life and Literature"
from Novel Ideas · host The Novel Ideas Podcast
If you've been here for a while, you know as soon as I see or hear the mention Kazuo Ishiguro, the conversation is going to be amazing. Of course, also reflecting on the minutiae of life to make sense of where we are and where we're going is also too enticing to pass up. Cohen's seamless integration of literary works' characters' personal experiences paralleling the real-life psychoanalytical sessions of everyday people, blurring lines between the fictional and realistic expressions of life, How To Live offers an implicit understanding that the examples of "how to" is all around us, it's just a matter of being around long enough figure it out for yourself.
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It's About Already Living: Josh Cohen's "How To Live. What To Do: In Search of Ourselves in Life and Literature"
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