“I have all sorts of fancy ideas about why I can’t maintain omniscience. I don’t believe in a monolithic, all-seeing god. I’m mixed-race. I perceive everything as being fractured or multiplicitous; maybe that’s why I see everything from multiple points of view.”
March 26, 2022
iNews
Ruth Ozeki on The Book of Form and Emptiness
“I put on my magic Zoom sweater, log on, and I’m in Tokyo, London, Washington DC . My face transcends place and time”
March 5, 2022
The Guardian | Books
It's been a year since I've been close to a stranger's mouth - can I recover from "Zoom face"?
Drawing on her own novels, her Zen practice and Buddhist texts, Ozeki will discuss some of the ways in which autobiographical narrative fiction might function as praxis—a way of observing, interrogating and deconstructing the “self” to perform, or act out, core Zen teachings of no-self, emptiness and depended co-arising.
Uploaded by Smith College Buddhist Studies on 2018-11-15.
Is the future before us, or behind us? Ilan Stavans and Ruth Ozeki discuss in Episode #28 of New England Public Radio's "In Contrast" Podcast.
August 22, 2018
New England Public Radio, In Contrast
Episode #28: Our Face, Our Self - Ruth Ozeki
“We’re blessed with these imaginations and empathy is not something passive. It’s active. It’s something that we can do both as writers and as readers. ”
December 6, 2016
Literary Hub
Writing the Body: Trauma, Illness, Sexuality and Beyond
Red Ink Reading Series with Ruth Ozeki, Eileen Myles, Porochista Khakpour, Anna March, and Alexandra Kleeman, hosted by Michele Filgate