“But something being over is not the same as something never having happened.” Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends
Sarvat Hasin’s Strange Girls traces the intense bond between two young writers who build a shared imaginative world only to find it fracturing as life pulls them apart. Ana Kinsella’s Frida Slattery As Herself follows a long, complicated creative partnership between an actor and a writer director, stretched across years of work, desire and reinvention.
Together, Hasin and Kinsella discuss the pleasures and perils of making art with and through other people: the blurred lines between influence and authorship, intimacy and rivalry, and what remains when these relationships change or end.
Sarvat Hasin’s debut, This Wide Night , was longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. You Can’t Go Home Again featured in Vogue India’s and The Hindu’s best of the year lists. The Giant Dark won the Mo Siewcharran Prize and was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award. Ana Kinsella is the author of Look Here, and has published fiction with Granta and nonfiction in n+1, Tolka, the FT Magazine, frieze and others.