Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki is an American-Canadian novelist, filmmaker, and Zen priest. Among her works are My Year of Meats, All Over Creation, The Book of Form and Emptiness, and A Tale for the Time Being, which won the LA Times Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award.
A candid conversation on the liberatory power of in-between states
Existential Creativity
The role of the artist in a time of crisis
Writing Toward Redemption
In a recent Tricycle Talks episode, novelist and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki discusses the creative process and her new book, The Book of Form and Emptiness.
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Finding the Voice, Performing the Self
In a 30th-Anniversary discussion, Stephen Batchelor and Ruth Ozeki explore the rituals and mysteries of creativity.
Memories in the Mirror
An interview with Ruth Ozeki, a Zen Buddhist priest and recently the author of The Face: A Time Code
Podcasts
Writing into the Void
Novelist Ruth Ozeki discusses her first short story collection.
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‘Music or Madness, It’s Up to You’
On the release of her new novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Ruth Ozeki joins Tricycle’s editor-in-chief James Shaheen to discuss the redemptive power of writing, the interplay between creativity and madness, and relational modes of healing.
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