Artist Decoded By Yoshino

Lidia Yuknavitch is the nationally bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children, and Dora: A Headcase, the story collection Verge, and the memoir The Chronology of Water. She is the recipient of two Oregon Book Awards and has been a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and the PEN Center USA Creative Nonfiction Award. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Topics Discussed In This Episode: “One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are, and to live without belief—that is a fate more terrible than dying.” - The Book of Joan Having grit and an unwillingness to surrender as an artist False notions around the idea of transcendence Social conditioning Patriarchy The umbilical cord as a metaphoric symbol in Lidia’s writing Objective correlatives Intergenerational trauma Her writing center “Corporeal Writing” How her newest book “Thrust” is a love letter dedicated to her son and mother “The edges of everything are alway