Identity, Capitalism and the Future of the Novel

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Alexandra Kleeman John White

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JOHN HUDSON WHITE: How does the place you’re from, influence your work?

ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN: The part of Colorado I grew up in is kind of paradox: a lot of it feels like you’re nowhere in particular, big box stores, parking lots, and chains. But then the nature around it is incredibly specific. The delicacy of a plains habitat shifting suddenly into pine forest, the way species appear or disappear at those transitional boundaries. It taught me to question the reality of the built world, and think more seriously about the kinds of life that exist at our margins.

WHITE: That reminds me—that you describe beauty products as an anonymous scent that makes one smell like a person but not like any person in particular.

KLEEMAN: One of the effects of our present configuration of capitalism is that we approach our identity as something that is authentic and innate, but expressed...

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