Selfy Stories
selfystories.bsky.social
Selfy Stories
@selfystories.bsky.social
What is the self? Is it a story that we tell ourselves? In this podcast, we turn to philosophy & literature for answers.

🎙️ScarlettBaron + AliceHarberd

https://open.spotify.com/show/2ae2RQYLbLop9oe10huOvp?si=6df3218256a24352
Season 2 of Selfy Stories is here!

Five episodes exploring the self in literature and philosophy and focusing closely on Annie Ernaux’s magnum opus of 2008, The Years.
October 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Rachel Cusk on the novelist’s job and the status of the self.

Watch more of the conversation on YouTube:

youtu.be/uhY5MR87Av8?...

Or listen to the whole conversation on Selfy Stories:

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September 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Brian Dillon on his relationship to memoir-writing.

👀🎥 Watch the highlights of the conversation on YouTube:

youtu.be/uhY5MR87Av8?...

👂🏻🎧 Or listen to the whole conversation on Selfy Stories:

open.spotify.com/episode/2Pya...

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

on.soundcloud.com/DVm4Nw5oeaAI...
September 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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🔵 ANNIVERSARY SALE 🔵

To celebrate eleven years since we published our first book, we are running a sale on our website until 11.59 p.m. BST on 30 September, with a 40 per cent discount across our website.

Use the code ‘ANNIVERSARY40’ at checkout: fitzcarraldoeditions.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
⭐️⭐️⭐️A SUPERSPECIAL BONUS EPISODE OF SELFY STORIES⭐️⭐️⭐️ has landed, featuring Rachel Cusk, Brian Dillon, and Vidyan Ravinthiran in conversation on the subject of Literature in the Age of the Self.
September 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The highlights video of our Literature in the Age of the Self event is here at last! ✨✨✨

www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Featuring Brian Dillon, Rachel Cusk, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Clare Carlisle, Eric Langley, and Tom Stern.
September 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Just a few days to go until the release of the highlights video of our LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF THE SELF event.

Featuring incredible writers

⭐️ Rachel Cusk! Brian Dillon! Vidyan Ravinthiran! ⭐️

and amazing academics

⭐️ Clare Carlisle! Eric Langley! Tom Stern! ⭐️

on the subject of the self.
September 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Our ANNIE ERNAUX season is coming SOON! Just a few short weeks to wait before the second season of Selfy Stories begins.

Deep in the UCL Studio, we’ve been perfecting our plosives, fine-tuning our fricatives, and jiggling our jingles.

#annieernaux #theyears #autosociobiography #philosophy
August 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Dr Scarlett Baron and Alice Harberd @artshumsucl.bsky.social have launched a new podcast: @selfystories.bsky.social.

In each episode, they ponder on how present-day literary representations of the self relate to what philosophers have to say about it. 

👉 media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/self...
Episode 1 of SELFY STORIES is here!

Have a listen! tinyurl.com/2s4c9jj9

In this episode, we consider the first chapter of Rachel Cusk’s novel ‘Outline’ alongside a paper by Daniela Dover entitled ‘The Conversational Self’.

@leverhulme.ac.uk @britaesthetics.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Preschool’s out!

What better way to fill those long sunny summer days than to philosophize?

It’s never too early, or too late, to lead an examined life. #selfystories

#philosophy #literature #rachelcusk #annieernaux #examinedlife #self #selfhood #authenticity #autofiction #memoir #litfic
August 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Summer in the city and the heat is ON! ☀️☀️

Season 1 of Selfy Stories may have come to an end…

But Season 2 is coming to slake that burning thirst. 🧊🧊

After devoting 5 episodes to Rachel Cusk’s Outline, we’ll be moving on to Annie Ernaux and The Years.

Time to reach for your Fitzcarraldo shelf! 📚📖
August 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
August 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Literature in the Age of the Self!

It HAPPENED and we LOVED it!

Rachel Cusk, Brian Dillon, Vidyan Ravinthiran

Prof. Clare Carlisle, Dr Eric Langley, Prof. Tom Stern

Wonderful conversation, amazing talks.

@artshumsucl.bsky.social @britaesthetics.bsky.social @poems-not-opinions.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
In this episode of Selfy Stories, we discuss the fifth and final section of Cusk’s ‘Outline’ alongside a draft book chapter by James Lewis entitled ‘The Peculiar Allure of Another’s Aesthetic Worldview’.

🎧 on.soundcloud.com/RJFEKQTM9EQc...

@artshumsucl.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
August 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF THE SELF:

- it’s FREE
- it’s OPEN TO ALL
- it’s going to be AMAZING ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Incredible writers, brilliant thinkers, and a burning theme 🔥 at the centre of it all.

Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/literature...

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August 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
IRIS MURDOCH!

In this episode, we discuss Ch. 6 of Cusk’s ‘Outline’ alongside an essay by Murdoch called ‘The Idea of Perfection’. In this essay, Murdoch argues that the way we pay attention to the world is ethically significant.

@artshumsucl.bsky.social @ucl-che.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
August 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
EPISODE 3 OF SELFY STORIES IS HERE!

In this episode of Selfy Stories, we discuss Chapter 5 of Rachel Cusk’s novel ‘Outline’ (2014) alongside Chapters 3 to 5 of Taylor’s book, ‘The Ethics of Authenticity’ (1991).

@artshumsucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @britaesthetics.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
August 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
In this week’s episode, we discuss Cusk, who in 2023 gnomically declared herself to have a ‘moral agenda’, alongside a philosopher who once proclaimed himself to have done ‘all the major vices’ - in reference to his work on government committees.

open.spotify.com/episode/4cCD...
August 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF THE SELF - Everyone is invited to this free public event which will take place at UCL on Monday 16th June between 3 and 7pm, in the Cruciform Building on Gower Street.

@britaesthetics.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-che.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Episode 3 of Selfy Stories is here! 🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/4cCD...

In this episode, we talk about Chapters 2 and 3 of Rachel Cusk’s ‘Outline’ alongside a chapter from Bernard Williams’s book ‘Truth and Truthfulness’.

@artshumsucl.bsky.social @britaesthetics.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
August 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
In ‘The Conversational Self’ (2022), Daniela Dover ponders the value of a mode of human interaction that is animated by mutual curiosity.

Is the self conversational? We had a conversation to find out: tinyurl.com/3tj8v29p

@artshumsucl.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @britaesthetics.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Episode 1 of SELFY STORIES is here!

Have a listen! tinyurl.com/2s4c9jj9

In this episode, we consider the first chapter of Rachel Cusk’s novel ‘Outline’ alongside a paper by Daniela Dover entitled ‘The Conversational Self’.

@leverhulme.ac.uk @britaesthetics.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Selfy Stories is a new podcast which emerged out of a Philosophy and Literature Reading Group set up at University College London in October 2024.

@artshumsucl.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @britaesthetics.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Our trailer has arrived! tinyurl.com/4k5a7rbj

Selfy Stories is a brand new UCL podcast about the self in contemporary literature and philosophy.

🎧: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud etc.

@ucl.ac.uk @artshumsucl.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @ucl-ias.bsky.social @britaesthetics.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM