[Catherine Bush: What’s coming up]: Figuring out what you want the next 5-10 years to look like Ep 1217

Finding the Throughline with Kate Hanley

My guest this week is Catherine Bush, whose critically-acclaimed fiction (her book “Blaze Island” was named a “Globe and Mail” best book of the year and “The Rules of Engagement” was a “New York Times” notable book) often addresses the climate question. For example, in her most recent collection, “Skin”, a man falls in love with the wind.

In this final part of our interview, we covered:
- How and why she’s devoted to giving the natural world the same level of attention and care as her characters.
- The books that incorporate nature and climate into their primary narratives that have been inspiring her lately
- How she’s trying to address climate through the lens of a love for the natural world instead of despair
- Writing about “weird, unusual intimacies” in her stories that make people laugh instead of cringe
- The book she’s hoping to spend the next five years writing
- Why it’s good for writers to have things in their life that regularly take them away from their work
- Trying to figure out where she wants to live in retirement
- The Sri Lankan tea she’s addicted to, even though she can’t easily get it

Connect with Catherine at catherinebush.com.

For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com.

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