Writing Life No. 5: An interview with Robert Desjarlais

By Michelle Charette and Robert Desjarlais

This article is part of the series: Writing Life

Photo by Robert Desjarlais

“British poet W.H Auden suggested that true poets are those who like ‘hanging around words listening to what they say.”

Desjarlais, 2011, Counterplay: An Anthropologist at the Chess Board,15.

At the Paris Institute of Advanced Studies, where Robert is currently a research fellow, it is 3:30 p.m. We meet online to discuss how to …

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Writing Life No. 5: An interview with Robert Desjarlais