Writers on Other Writers' Writing, part 2

Joshua Cohen, Rochelle Gurstein, and a note from Nell Zink

The year has turned! My plans for a zippy intermezzo between the last post and this one were zapped by the alcoholidays and a case of flu. So without much further ado, I give you the second installment of the Tablet Samovar Series Podcasts, suitable for snow days and slushy commutes, air travel delays, FEMA trailers, and all those other times you might welcome some spectral voices between your ears and in your homes.

Here is Joshua Cohen on Alfred Döblin's prescient climate change novel: Mountains, Oceans, Giants

And here is Rochelle Gurstein discussing the fate of the idea of the classic in art.

Also, for those familiar with part one, Nell Zink wishes to point out that she fumbled parts of Walser's bio. His dad merely went broke when he was 15, dying many
years later, and the bequests she mentions arrived only after the war,
when he was back in Switzerland.

For those coming here for the first time, part one can be found HERE.