Cynthia Banham: 'Writing is a dangerous act'

Podcast: Fictionable · Fictionable

Opublikowano: 2026-02-20

In this Winter series we've already welcomed Cynthia Zarin, Rodrigo Urquiola Flores and the translator Shaina Brassard, Tim Conley and Samuel Rigg. We bring down the curtain with Cynthia Banham and her short story Swimming With Crocodiles. Banham confesses that she shares her protagonist's passion for rewilding, but insists that her short story both is and isn't about the author: "You don't really control what finds its way into your story." After losing her legs following a plane crash in 2007, Banham says that one of the few things that gave...