Twenty Questions with Lea Ypi

Twenty Questions with Lea Ypi

“How can I know what I think, until I see what I say?” (E. M. Forster). How much of your writing surprises you? All of it. It’s always a miracle, or rather a kind of grace, when thoughts convert into words. Thomas Mann had it right when he said that a writer is someone for whom writing is harder than for other people. What is the first thing you remember reading or being read to? “Kaschei the Deathless”, a Russian fairytale. My mother read it ou…