Episode 59 - Vendela Vida: Part 3

In part three of This Writing Life's chat with American writer Vendela Vida about her latest novel The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty, we begin by asking: 'Why Casablanca?'
After some exploration of labyrinths (and stupid questions), we move onto:

• art, stories and constant change
  
• 'A story is something that happens, after which nothing is ever the same'
• characters (and Vida) on the verge of...adulthood?
• parenthood, acting, and playing at selfhood
  
• Reeves, Aretha, Sabine: the various selves of Vida's heroine
• 'I know what her name is...but I'm not going to tell you'
• humour, trauma and The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty
• 'Distract, distract, distract': that's entertainment?!
• Vida on Amy Schumer, comedy and the internet
• why Vida goes to the library to use the internet
  
• 'If I want to read a book at night, if I had internet, it would not happen'
• Vida's preparation for a cultural evening (and why she hates dinner parties)