Reframing Truth-Telling Through Fiction with Claudia Dey
And some upcoming events
This week, we are reframing fiction as truth-telling with novelist, playwright, and clothing line creator Claudia Dey. You’ll hear our conversation filled with so many truths born of fiction, using constraints to create, and the companionship of language. We talk about Claudia’s newest novel Daughter, and Hamlet, and theatre school memories of Claudia’s play Trout Stanley. We also get into how we can’t waver from value systems in terms of what we put out in the world. For Claudia, that shows up in her books and her clothing brand. For us here, it’s tied to who we bring on the show.
Claudia Dey is a bestselling novelist, playwright, and essayist based in Toronto. She has written the novels Stunt, Heartbreaker, and Daughter, as well as the plays Beaver, The Gwendolyn Poems, and Trout Stanley. Other writing of hers has appeared in The Paris Review, The Believer, Toro, and The Globe and Mail. Claudia is also the co-founder of the clothing line Horses Atelier.
Links:
Daughter
Horses Atelier
For more from Claudia, follow her on Instagram and take a look at her website
Upcoming Reframeables events:
Feb 8th: Communal soup. Everybody brings an ingredient of their choosing and we see what happens. We dare you to join us. Message us to say you’re coming and we will send you the secret location!
March 21st: Drinks at Doc’s Green Door Lounge (3106 Dundas St W)
April 25th: Zoom book chat - TBA.
Stealing from
this week - Rebecca quotes An Interrupted Life by Etty Hellisum.“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace and to reflect it toward others.”
One our top episodes of the last few months was our episode with friendship expert Shasta Nelson.
And this one with humorist R. Eric Thomas who helped us reframe pop culture as self-care.
Or perhaps you want to do a deep dive into what foods appear on your plate as we reframed vegetarian eating with Alicia Kennedy.