Ep2: The Day’s Residue
Clare and Yves are joined by author Helen Garner, whose latest book The Yellow Notebook (Text, 2020) is an edited collection of the author’s diaries--or what you might call a self-archive. Helen explores the psychic necessity of diary keeping, the tendency of memory to smooth over our own crimes, and the truth to be found in self-research. The group discusses their shared motto and letters that elicit a sweat of fury, before reflecting on what it means to bear the blows in life and hand them out.
References:
Helen Garner’s Text Publishing authors page
Helen Garner on “The Conversation”
Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume One, 1978–1986 (Text, 2020)
Helen Garner, This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial (Text, 2016)
Clare Wright, Yves Rees and Helen Garner
Co-hosts Yves Rees and Clare Wright talk archive fever with author Helen Garner.
Yves Rees, Helen Garner, and Clare Wright
Cover of Helen Garner’s Yellow Notebook (Text 2019)