Episode 72 - Bill Clegg: Part 4

Part four of Bill Clegg's This Writing Life podcast, begins with a discussion about paying attention to the workings of our own consciousness. After a critique of Alan Ball's Six Feet Under (Clegg's working out box set of choice) we moved to:

• death as existential wake-up call
  
• family, blame and redemption: Clegg's relationship with his father
• suffering, realism and writing: Clegg on Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life
• addiction, control and trauma (and writing)
• does telling it slant help Clegg resolve his own problems?
• Clegg on Thomas Hardy
• regret in Did You Ever Have a Family?
  
• a tragedy told through its aftermath?
• the persistence of childhood embarrassment