Creative Questions with Katherine May

In which we discuss when we first called ourselves writers, the complexities of writing about family, how we both play (which is different from rest), and Katherine making Nepalese momos.

This week, my friend

Katherine May

and I recorded our (mostly) monthly installment of Creative Questions, wherein you send us your most pressing questions about living the creative life — the whens, wheres, hows, and WHAT WILL HAPPENs IF I — and we answer them on the spot, without having much or any of a prior conversation about them, or how we are going to answer them.

I particularly love this conversation because 1) I so enjoy talking to Katherine, who is as hilarious and wise as she is brilliant, and who I am lucky enough to call a dear friend who has written books that have literally changed the way I see and move in the world (especially this and this); and 2) between the two of us, we have a large number of working/writing years under our belts, and have pretty much seen and experienced it all. And it goes without saying: we love talking to you, our readers. (Also, I am in Connecticut and Katherine is in England where she lives very close to the sea, and you can often hear gulls in the distance. The miracles of modern communication. Who would have ever thought.)

How it works: a few days before our CQ, we ask paid subscribers via Chat to send us their most pressing questions. In turn, we will send the link to our live conversation/webinar, in which you will also be able to ask us questions on the spot, engage with us, and engage with each other. A day or so after that, we will post the conversation: I on Poor Man’s Feast, and Katherine, on her substack, The Clearing.

Free subscribers will get a small taste of our chat. Paid subscribers will have access to the chat in its entirety, and will be able to take part in the conversation.

Please do consider joining us; we’d love to see you.

Free subscribers: A snippet of our chat for free subscribers is above.

For paid subscribers: Here is the conversation in its entirety, below.