
To Sleep, To Dream: Samantha Harvey
Samantha Harvey and Heidi Reitmaier
To Sleep, To Dream: Samantha Harvey
Samantha Harvey and Heidi Reitmaier
6:00pm
Saturday, October 31
45 mins
What happens when one of the basic human needs goes unmet? For award-winning UK author Samantha Harvey, extreme sleep deprivation resulted in a raw clarity about life itself. Original and profound, her latest memoir, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping, is a startlingly insightful exploration of memory, writing and influence, death and grief, and the will to survive. Pull up a pillow; this conversation promises not to be a snooze.
Interviewer: Heidi Reitmaier
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What happens when one of the basic human needs goes unmet? For award-winning UK author Samantha Harvey, extreme sleep deprivation resulted in a raw clarity about life itself. Original and profound, her latest memoir, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping, is a startlingly insightful exploration of memory, writing and influence, death and grief, and the will to survive. Pull up a pillow; this conversation promises not to be a snooze.
Interviewer: Heidi Reitmaier
English captioning is available for this video. Please click the ‘CC’ button in the video toolbar to turn it on.