“Identity was a relative, not [an] absolute”
February 24, 2017
Buddhistdoor Global
The Fiction of the Self: Ruth Ozeki
Caitlin Dwyer
LIT HUB: RED INK SERIES PANEL DISCUSSION ON WRITING THE BODY
“We’re blessed with these imaginations and empathy is not something passive. It’s active. It’s something that we can do both as writers and as readers. ”
December 6, 2016
Literary Hub
Writing the Body: Trauma, Illness, Sexuality and Beyond
Red Ink Reading Series with Ruth Ozeki, Eileen Myles, Porochista Khakpour, Anna March, and Alexandra Kleeman, hosted by Michele Filgate
KENYON REVIEW: IN CONVERSATION WITH KATHARINE WEBER
“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