![]() ![]() ![]() We'll dig into the ways that literature can be about itself, from books set in libraries to stories about writers to metafictional texts about their own means of creation, and ask what the joys and the pitfalls of this kind of self-referentiality can be - plus all the usual recommendations. In honour of Ruth, and Benny, this show is all about books about books. Kandasamy Vikram, Suchitra Naturally, the song happens to be the ringtones on many mobiles as it was released with a sample piece on video before movie launch. Ruth's latest novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness, is about a boy named Benny who loses his father and shortly thereafter begins to hear the voices of inanimate objects, including the voice of the novel itself. Regular listeners will know that we love to get a little meta here on LF, and this month author Ruth Ozeki gave us the perfect excuse to indulge ourselves as we slide into the holiday season. ![]()
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