Marianne Brooker and Intervals

"I wanted to be talking choice in a way that was routed in a social context, and that was true to the particularity and intimacy that I shared with my mum at the end of her life." Marianne Brooker is here to talk about her Women's Prize for Non-Fiction shortlisted essay, INTERVALS, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. Marianne talks about her life and living with her mother who was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis. The book is a blend of memoir, philosophy, literary criticism, and politics.  It's a tough but incredibly beautiful read.  Rippling Points 2.05 - When Marianne decided this story about her mother was going to be a book 3.40 - 'Trying, circling, avoiding' - setting down to write a book like this 4.30 - How Marianne would categorises this book 7:00 -  On planning or not planning the book 8:44 - When Marianne's mother developed primary progressive multiple sclerosis 10:20 - Finding a voice and coming up with a 'vocabulary' 12:20 - The 'forces' in the book and Marianne's mother 16:10 - Marianne's relationship with her mother. 20:00 - What primary progressive multiple sclerosis is. 22:20 - Marianne on 'choice'  25:21 - When Marianne found a video of her mother. Reference Points Writers Roland Barthes Annie Ernaux Clarissa Pinkola Estés - Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype  Saidiya Hartman Alice Hattrick Sophie Lewis Sam Mills Margery Williams - The Velveteen Rabbit Filmmakers Chantal Akerman