[DEV] Podcast: Season 7, Episode 1, “Quitting if Only to Start Again” Elvia Wilk | Momus

Launching Season 7, Elvia Wilk, an essayist, critic, and novelist, talks to Sky Goodden about the decision to quit writing—if only to be able to start again. In discussing rejection, the changing conditions of the field, and the denuding of successful female writers, Wilk also touches on the authors who have modeled quitting (“the authors of the no”), or who have mitigated against their own exposure, including Olivia Sudjic, Enrique Vila-Matas, Rachel Cusk, and Elena Ferrante.

Momus: The Podcast is edited by Jacob Irish, with production assistance from Chris Andrews.

Hosts: Sky Goodden and Lauren Wetmore

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Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York. She’s the author of the novel Oval, the essay collection Death by Landscape, and the novel A Diagnosis, which will be published in 2027. She writes essays, criticism, and fiction for publications like Frieze, Bookforum, 4Columns, n+1, Granta, The Paris Review online, BOMB, The White Review, Mousse, The Nation, The Atlantic, WIRED and The New York Review of Books. She’s received support from the Andy Warhol Foundation, Artlab, the Berggruen Institute, the Remarque Institute, La Becque, Callie’s, plus some other grants and awards. She’s a contributing editor at e-flux Journal and teaches writing in the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence.

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