“It’s about investigation. Writing fiction is a way of approaching this question: who am I? ”
October 30, 2016
Kenyon Review: KR Podcast, The KR Conversations
KR Podcast with Ruth Ozeki
Katharine Weber
LA REVIEW OF BOOKS: An Interview with Joshua Ellison of Restless Books, "The experiment is simple..."
“The experiment is simple...to sit in front of a mirror and watch my face for three hours.”
July 13, 2016
LA Review of Books
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall
Dinah Lenney
ELECTRIC LIT: AN INTERVIEW WITH RUTH OZEKI, ON TAPPING INTO THE BODY'S MEMORY
“The key to any kind of literary writing is being able to tap the body’s memory: to enter the writing through the senses, and through the body. If we’re able to do that then the writing itself becomes embodied.”
May 3, 2016
Electric Lit
"Literature is a Kind of Mirror": An Interview with Ruth Ozeki
Melody J. Nixon
BUSTLE: Ruth Ozeki On 'A Tale For The Time Being': We All Have A Buddhist Nun Inside Us →
“I like to think we all have our own inner Jikos, the archetypal character who serves as a moral compass. She’s very much a part of our folklore — both our public folklore and our inner folklore. So I think that’s why people like her: they recognize her, because we all have one.”
January 14, 2014
Ruth Ozeki On 'A Tale For The Time Being': We All Have A Buddhist Nun Inside Us
BUSTLE
Claire Luchette
Star Tribune: Interview with Ruth Ozeki →
“It’s a small but spacious room in my mind, very quiet and far away, and often difficult to get to. There are certain keys that fit the many doorways between here and there, but I’m often unsure of which keys to use, and I often lose or misplace them. But once I’m inside the room, I feel like I’ve come home. ”
January 8, 2014
Star Tribune
Interview with Ruth Ozeki
Laurie Hertzel