In this interview, we chat with Sarah Bernstein about contemplation, finding time for writing, capturing the rush of language, and so much more. 

Sarah Bernstein is the author of two novels, The Coming Bad Days and Study for Obedience, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is from Montreal and lives in the Scottish Highlands. 

Books and stories mentioned in this episode:

• Hysteric; Whore – Nelly Arcan
• Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
• The Moonstone; The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
• “A Mown Lawn” – Lydia Davis
• Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth Franklin
• The Book of Questions – Edmond Jabès
• The Haunting of Hill House; “The Lottery”; The Sundial; We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson
• The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
• The Place of Shells - Mai Ishizawa
• In the Wake: On Blackness and Being – Christina Sharpe
• The House Next Door – Anne Rivers Siddons
• The Door – Magda Szabó
• Clean – Alia Trabucco Zerán