THE CLEARING WITH KATHERINE MAY
Emma Gannon’s year of desert rest
Hello,
Prolific author of nine books and writer behind the Substack phenomenon The Hyphen, Emma Gannon takes us away for a whole year to her imaginary retreat in Palm Springs, where she plans to indulge almost solely in her number-one pastime - reading.
Revealing the extent to which she craves alone time, she tells me about her very real experience of burnout, how she went from someone who lived to work to appreciating downtime and why she relates to The Hermit in Tarot.
An inspiring listen that challenges our ideas of ‘the right way’ to live and embraces the concept of letting go.
Links in the show:
Emma’s Substack The Hyphen
Emma’s website
Emma’s Instagram
A link to buy her books including A Year of Nothing.
Find Emma’s conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert about memoir here.
Max Richter’s track On the Nature of Daylight.
Click here to listen in your favourite app, or paid subscribers can listen to an ad-free version here in this post.
You can read the transcript here:
Production Credits
Guest Booker and Admin Support - Meghan Hutchins
Substack Manager - Rebecca Armstrong
Producer - Alice Lloyd
Music - The Leaf Library theleaflibrary
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