Epilogue: Having It Out With Melancholy

Epilogue: Having It Out With Melancholy

Author: The House of Literature July 5, 2021 Duration: 11:00

In this final bonus episode of How to Proceed, Linn Ullmann talks about how the idea for this podcast started, and her thoughts one year later. Emmanuel Carrere's final question to the readers, "Are you happy? And do you think it is important to be happy?", made Ullmann think of one of her favorite poems, Having it Out with Melancholy by Jane Kenyon. Together with the other interviewers this season, she gives you a reading of this poem, as a final tribute to our wonderful listeners, to the silent pandemics in our lives, the melancholy that sometimes fills our hopes and floating moments, but also the hope and solitude, the glimpses of happiness and comfort, the beating heart of the bird.


“Having It Out with Melancholy” from Collected Poems. Copyright © 2005 by The Estate of Jane Kenyon. Used with the permission of Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, www.graywolfpress.org


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Every other week, author Linn Ullmann sits down for a thoughtful and often surprising dialogue that begins with a book but rarely ends there. How To Proceed, from The House of Literature, is a series of conversations that explore the intricate links between a writer's creative process and the pressing questions of our time. These aren't standard interviews about plot and character; instead, Ullmann engages with some of the most compelling literary voices to discuss how they build their worlds on the page and how they interpret the one outside their window. Listeners are invited into a space where the craft of writing meets cultural observation, where the discussion might pivot from a specific sentence structure to the structure of society itself. This podcast lives in the rich intersection of arts and current events, offering a nuanced perspective that only deep, patient conversation can provide. It’s a chance to hear how thinkers and storytellers navigate their work and our shared moment, making each episode a unique exploration of how we create meaning.
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