How We Live Now with Katherine May
Katherine MayHow should we live in this world when so much is changed? Katherine May, author of Wintering and the Electricity of Every Living Thing, asks those most intimate with the effects of these transformations: what now?
How do we stay soft in a world determined to harden? How can we bear witness to suffering without being dragged into despair? How do we ride the waves of our anger, sorrow and exhausti... more
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 67 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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| Categories | BooksArtsSelf-ImprovementEducation | ||||
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Recently, Katherine interviewed Sarah Moss about her incredible new memoir, My Good Bright Wolf, an account of growing up as a difficult girl in a difficult family, and how this ultimately led to her eating disorder. Throughout the book, she repeated... more
What’s to be done with the lost, the dead, but write them into being?’
So writes Hilary Mantel in her extraordinary memoir, Giving Up the Ghost. First published in 2003, it offers a snapshot of the great writer before the Wolf Hall era: a literary, ... more
It was National Poetry Day in the UK earlier this month and Katherine talked to Kate Fox about her new book, On Sycamore Gap, in an extra Book Club event. Kate’s book is about a very special tree in the north of England that was chopped down by vanda... more
September - when we’re almost as likely to be trying to reform ourselves as in January - is the perfect moment for Oliver Burkeman’s new book, Meditations for Mortals.
Katherine sat down to talk to Oliver for her Book Club, and there was one questi... more
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- Like a warm cup of tea with a friend
Love this podcast and the questions and insights Katherine and her guests offer.
Apple Podcasts5StaceyHettes
United States5 months ago - Grateful
So grateful for the time and thought that go into this podcast. Such a heartfelt act of love that I am finding very comforting.
Apple Podcasts5Anna with an "S"United States8 months ago - Don’t tell me how tired you are.
Please don’t begin by telling the audience how tired you are from a party.
Put the dog away before the podcast. A barking dog in the background is sort of unprofessional.
I wanted to here Oliver Burkeman. Thanks for that.
Apple Podcasts2kamjdlmUnited States10 months ago - Very enjoyable and interesting but…
I’ve really enjoyed this podcast and apparently it’s finished now … very sad. It’s being moved over to Substack - which is fine but most things on Ms May’s Stack are behind a paywall. I’ll be sad to see this go - it’s been a great listen. I
Apple Podcasts5La Galloise
France2 years ago Enjoyable! Love listening to the eclectic guests and peering into the minds of writers and thinkers.
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1. Sarah Moss
2. Kate Fox
3. Oliver Burkeman
4. Lucy Jones
5. Daniel Tammet
6. Catherine Coldstream
7. Camille T. Dungy
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