Camille Bordas on making difficult topics funny and crafting sharp dialogue

Camille Bordas is one heck of an exciting literary talent, and she’s joining me on the Rippling Pages to discuss her story collection, ONE SUN ONLY (Serpent’s Tail).

What I loved about these stories is their wonderfully dry humour, empathetic narratives of flawed characters, and deeply woven observations, within the stories, about how fiction works. 

Plaudits for Camille have come from George Saunders, Zadie Smith, and Percival Everett. She’s a regular contributor to the New Yorker.

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1.30 - bad backs and teaching
4.00 - writing and talking about death 
8.45 - creating character dynamics 
11.10 - camille’s sociology background
12.45 - experimenting in stories and novels  
15.10 - writing in French and English
17.40 - Rippling pages Patreon
19.55 - animation and jokes
22.15 - what animates a language
24.30 - writing dialogue 
26.30 - misunderstanding ourselves 
28.45 - illness and self growth 
30.15 - plotting
33.30 - how sopranos helps with plotting 
36.35 - recreating scenes from the sopranos
39.00 - acting and writing

Reference Points

Donald Barthelme 
Delphine Horvilleur
Karl Ove Knausgård
Gwendoline Riley
Katharina Volckmer 

 

TV
The Sopranos