Interview with Lee Kofman – author and writing teacher

‘In each draft I try to get one or two things right rather than everything.’

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Episode 68 – Lee Kofman – Show Notes

• Creative non-fiction is her current favourite medium. Closer to poetry than non-fiction. It is a fresher and younger experimental genre.
• Multi-tasking with children
• Prepare for writing session by thinking about the current project before sitting down at the desk.
• Gerald Murnane – three types of writers: curious, preachy and possessed/obsessed.
• Themes – doomed loves.
• Memoir-writing and Russian poets
• All writing is rewriting.
• Working on plotting skills but not plotting too much. Needs a sense of tension to keep the writing process interesting
• Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gogol, Helen Garner, Robert Dessaix, Zadie Smith, Geoff Dyer, Joan Didion, Karl Ove Knausgaard
• Imperfect – scars and haunted by shame. Inspired by her child’s diagnosis of albinism

‘Writing is layering.’

‘What it’s like to have a body which deviates from the so-called norm.’

Links

• Lee’s website
• Lee on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram & Linkedin

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