Seeded
Seeded Ep 12 Emily Perkins
MP3, 27m38s, 25.3MB, first broadcast 17 July 2010
Emily Perkins is a writer who first won attention as a 26 year old, when her collection of stories Not Her Real Name was published in 1996. It subsequently won the Faber Award in the UK, and her career has been in ascent ever since.
In this episode of Seeded, Emily tells how certain pieces of music have been crucial in the act of developing and writing her stories; as aspects of character and setting may be drawn from the feelings music evokes. From Liz Phair to Okkervil River, Brecht & Weill to Violent Femmes, the songs igniting sparks for Emily are illuminating...
