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.

‘Music or Madness, It’s Up to You’

With Ruth Ozeki

‘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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