There is a sense of restlessness in the work of Claire-Louise Bennett, a rhythmic looping feedback that the nameless female narrators of short story collection Pond (2015) and novel Checkout 19 (2021) share as they look to the world around them—a solitary cottage in the countryside, a grocery store checkout register—and then back to themselves, their minds quick, always thinking. It’s a quality that Bennett possesses herself and on a call from her home in the west of Ireland, she This story is from Kinfolk Issue Fifty-One Buy Now Related Stories Arts & Culture Issue 50 Angela Trimbur “I’m talking to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority…. I want to do a rat king ballet in the subway.” Arts & Culture Issue 50 On the Shelf Writer Hua Hsu on faxes and friendship. Arts & Culture Issue 49 Amalie Smith The Danish arts writer finding clarity between the lines. Arts & Culture Issue 47 Julia Bainbridge On the life-enhancing potential of not drinking alcohol. Arts & Culture Food Issue 46 At Work With: Deb Perelman The little blog that could: An interview with Smitten Kitchen’s unflappable founder. Arts & Culture Issue 45 Lisa Taddeo On writing the secret lives of women.
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