I had a great chat with Kate Marshall at @ucpress.bsky.social about the importance of choosing the influences on your prose. “Not all academics do the necessary reading that allows you to write beyond a purely academic audience.”

academicstorytelling.substack.com/p/choosing-y...

As her new book Land of Famished Beings comes out, I speak to Sophie Chao about why storytelling matters to ethnography. academicstorytelling.substack.com/p/does-story... @kwissoker.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

This September, I'll be running a short course on creative ethnographic writing at SOAS. We'll learn narrative techniques from HBO dramas, international cinema and Russian literature! Sign up & details: academicstorytelling.substack.com/p/new-short-... @soasanthro.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social