Camille Bordas on making difficult topics funny and crafting sharp dialogue

Camille Bordas is one heck of an exciting literary talent, and she’s joining me on the Rippling Pages to discuss her story collection, ONE SUN ONLY (Serpent’s Tail).

What I loved about these stories is their wonderfully dry humour, empathetic narratives of flawed characters, and deeply woven observations, within the stories, about how fiction works. 

Plaudits for Camille have come from George Saunders, Zadie Smith, and Percival Everett. She’s a regular contributor to the New Yorker.

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1.30 - bad backs and teaching 4.00 - writing and talking about death  8.45 - creating character dynamics  11.10 - camille’s sociology background 12.45 - experimenting in stories and novels   15.10 - writing in French and English 17.40 - Rippling pages Patreon 19.55 - animation and jokes 22.15 - what animates a language 24.30 - writing dialogue  26.30 - misunderstanding ourselves  28.45 - illness and self growth  30.15 - plotting 33.30 - how sopranos helps with plotting  36.35 - recreating scenes from the sopranos 39.00 - acting and writing

Reference Points

Donald Barthelme  Delphine Horvilleur Karl Ove Knausgård Gwendoline Riley Katharina Volckmer 

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