“Unveiling Grief: Eiren Caffall Reveals the Hidden Wisdom in ‘The Mourner’s Bestiary'”
AE: Yes.
EC: And you’re like, “I don’t know. I’m in year three of it. What do I do next?”
AE: Truth.
EC: But I think if we were more open with each other we’d have more generous, loving, supportive places where we’d get more work done because, God forbid you bring up how expensive it is to be a single parent in a room full of people who have fantastic achievements in the literary world. There’s a real freeze response like—we don’t say that out loud.
AE: I work a lot in storytelling and the Live Lit world as well as with writers. But that brings up a lot of classism – just having the time to devote to going to events, paying for tickets because lots of stuff is not free. If you want to improve what you’re doing and take a workshop, can you afford to? My friend Lily Be talks about that. There’s a lot of gatekeeping. Who controls the narrative of what voices, what stories we hear? As a producer of a show, I try to be mindful of that.
