Episode 57 - Vendela Vida: Part 2

Part 2 of Vendela Vida's Writing Life podcast begins with a discussion of performance: parenthood as performance, self as performance, acting as performance. From here we sashay to:

• the problems of meditation
• when are we truest to ourselves?
• acting and announcing winners at the Academy Awards
• how parents should praise their children's art works
• writing and an essential self?
• writing by hand and how Vida writes her fiction
  
• fiction, rhythm and 'top spin'
• getting lost in life and art
• Vida's unfinished novels
• writing in the second person (singular)
• look in the mirror and say, You can do this...
• gender and travel