Nuar Alsadir The Lives of Writers

Michael talks with Nuar Alsadir about remote psychoanalysis, finding a path as a thinker and writer, her two collections of poetry, her book-length essay Animal Joy (Graywolf Press), spontaneous outbursts of laughter, losing an early version of the book, free association as form and process, balancing the personal and intellectual, the research and writing processes, laughter as manipulation, the parallels of laughter and empathy, free range writing play, and more.