“Categories are more for academics and booksellers and librarians...I’m not dissing that, but for me, every time I find myself in a category, I want to break it.”
November 1, 2021
NBC News | Asian America | by Victoria Namkung
The Shift (On Life After 40) with Sam Baker
The Shift is a podcast that aims to tell the truth about being a woman post-40, created and hosted by journalist and author, Sam Baker.
November 8, 2021
The Shift Podcast
The Tyee - What’s Really Crazy in Our World? Ruth Ozeki Has an Idea
“Objects own us.”
October 27, 2021
The Tyee | Culture | Media by Dorothy Woodend
What’s Really Crazy in Our World? Ruth Ozeki Has an Idea: Her new novel ‘The Book of Form and Emptiness’ explores oppression, talking lettuce, a non-binary ferret and more.
So MANY DAMN BOOKS pODCAST: Episode 170 - Ruth Ozeki and Walter Benjamin's "Unpacking My Library"
Ruth Ozeki steps on into the Damn Library Hyperverse to shine. We talk about her latest opus, The Book of Form and Emptiness, and how books are magical, and accessing her teenage self, and an unexpected turn of narrative luck with snowglobes, along with many other things. Plus she brings us Walter Benjamin's essay, "Unpacking My Library" and we talk about what book collecting means to all of us.
October 19, 2021
So Many Damn Books Podcast
Episode 170: Ruth Ozeki and Walter Benjamin's "Unpacking My Library"
Lit Hub: Ruth Ozeki on Writing About Respectful Relationships with Material Objects
Canada's National Observer - Author Ruth Ozeki explores loss, love, and our insatiable relationship with things
“Books gave me a way out of my own struggles and sort of showed me other ways of living, other ways of being in the world.”
October 19, 2021
Canada’s National Observer, News, Island Insider by Rochelle Baker
Author Ruth Ozeki explores loss, love, and our insatiable relationship with things