Rob Nixon – Slow Violence

03/31/22 • 25 min

Rob Nixon is the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Family Professor of the Humanities and the Environment at Princeton University. His fourth book, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011), uniquely made waves across the academic fields of the humanities and in the world of climate change activism. In this episode, Rob details the book's origins in his campaigning for the release of Ken Saro-Wiwa, in his anti-apartheid activism, and in his writing about the nuclear aftermath of the US-Iraq War.

'This is a book that didn't intend to become a book.'

Craft is brought to you by Wasafiri, the magazine of international contemporary writing. Check out our website, www.wasafiri.org, for outtakes and a full transcript of this interview, and much more from writers all over the world.

Craft is sponsored by Arts Council England, and Queen Mary University of London.

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'This is a book that didn't intend to become a book.'

Craft is sponsored by Arts Council England, and Queen Mary University of London.

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Johny Pitts – Afropean

Johny Pitts is a multiple-award-winning writer, photographer, and broadcast journalist, originally from Sheffield, England. His first book, Afropean (2020), combines travel writing, photography, history, and slices of memoir into a nonfiction work that seeks to sketch the many lives lived by Black people in contemporary Europe. In this fascinating interview, he tells the story of how he moved from wandering the streets and record stores of his hometown, lost, to becoming the head of continent-wide network of Black writers committed to capturing their experiences in Europe – in all their beauty and challenge.

'Who are the members of the Black community living in a place like Frankfurt?'

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Bernardine Evaristo – Lara

How do you tell the story of those who haven't had their stories told? Bernardine Evaristo is a Booker-Prize-winning novelist and decades-long champion of up-and-coming writers. On this episode, she describes her own early career: her years of drafting, redrafting, publishing, then redrafting again, her first verse novel Lara (1997 & 2009). Written in the narrative poetry form that has become Bernardine's signature, Lara spans generations and continents to present the origins of a mixed family much like Bernardine's own. Her first foray into novel writing, it charted a course and explored themes that would define her career.

'I took this manuscript of 200 pages ... and threw it in the bin.'

Craft is brought to you by Wasafiri, the magazine of international contemporary writing, and is sponsored by Arts Council England, and Queen Mary University of London. Check out our website, www.wasafiri.org, for outtakes and a full transcript of this interview, and much more from writers all over the world.

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