“Beyond the Pages: Lidia Yuknavitch Reveals the Hidden Depths of ‘Reading the Waves'”
This is a book about holding on and letting go. Mostly letting go. But you have to hold the book in water and land and in yoga class, meaning — in your body — for it to be effective. Yuknavitch writes, “I look for the places where stories and lives intersect, where the lines on the maps that divide us dissolve and shift.” The lines definitely divided yesterday. From land to lake, tree to trikonasana, this cognitively electric read emboldened me, like Tesla sitting inside his own work.
Leslie Lindsay: It’s always such a delight and honor to chat with you, Lidia. You are author of several novels, including most recently, Thrust, which I loved, and see as a bit as a fictional companion to Reading the Waves, but also, we can’t not talk about The Chronology of Water, which after it’s 2011 release, became a cult classic in terms of writing against norms. I’m pretty certain that book catapulted many-a-writers into this fluid, nonlinear storytelling style, including me.
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