So MANY DAMN BOOKS pODCAST: Episode 170 - Ruth Ozeki and Walter Benjamin's "Unpacking My Library"

Ruth Ozeki steps on into the Damn Library Hyperverse to shine. We talk about her latest opus, The Book of Form and Emptiness, and how books are magical, and accessing her teenage self, and an unexpected turn of narrative luck with snowglobes, along with many other things. Plus she brings us Walter Benjamin's essay, "Unpacking My Library" and we talk about what book collecting means to all of us.

October 19, 2021
So Many Damn Books Podcast
Episode 170: Ruth Ozeki and Walter Benjamin's "Unpacking My Library"

Lit Hub: Ruth Ozeki on Writing About Respectful Relationships with Material Objects

Canada's National Observer - Author Ruth Ozeki explores loss, love, and our insatiable relationship with things

“Books gave me a way out of my own struggles and sort of showed me other ways of living, other ways of being in the world.”
— Ruth Ozeki

October 19, 2021
Canada’s National Observer, News, Island Insider by Rochelle Baker
Author Ruth Ozeki explores loss, love, and our insatiable relationship with things

The Georgia Straight - The Book of Form and Emptiness draws inspiration from Vancouver Public Library

“We fail to see that ‘normal’ is a cultural construct...So what I was playing with in this book is what happens if we expand the notion of normal and make it more generous and make it more all-inclusive. What would happen then?”
— Ruth Ozeki