Rachel Cusk on the novelist’s job and the status of the self.

Watch more of the conversation on YouTube:

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Brian Dillon on his relationship to memoir-writing.

👀🎥 Watch the highlights of the conversation on YouTube:

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⭐️⭐️⭐️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.

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.

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

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

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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! 📚📖

LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF THE SELF…

Watch this space: highlights reel and audio podcast coming soon…

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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.

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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’.

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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.

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What’s next on Selfy Stories?

Tune in to find out!

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#ethics #authenticity #philosophy #literature #selfhood #rachelcusk #morality #truth #self #individualism #selfcreation #selfmaking #lifewriting #autofiction #memoir #selfystories

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.

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