Cynthia Zarin: 'You write out of the world that you're living in'

Podcast: Fictionable · Fictionable

Opublikowano: 2026-01-22

It's cold, it's wet, it's January. Time for another series of exclusive short stories and another series of podcasts. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be hearing from Rodrigo Urquiola Flores and his translator Shaina Brassard, as well as Tim Conley, Cynthia Banham and Samuel Rigg. But we kick off this winter series with Cynthia Zarin and Housekeeping. Zarin reveals that both the houses in her short story are taken from life, but with a certain amount of embroidery. "Everything is drawn from life," she says, "because what else is there?" <br...