Cassie McCullagh
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Like who?
And what had you lost?
Had you lost a book?
Had you lost a story?
Did you get it back?
So I'd asked you to collect together the imagined bookshelf that had made you.
How hard was that for you, Khalid?
Can you remember why you chose to read it at the age of 11?
Why in particular?
Why does he read Russian literature?
I wouldn't have guessed from your name a Russian connection.
Can you explain that?
Sorry, where was that?
What a complicated colonial bookshelf that becomes.
That postcolonial lens can be such a powerful reading experience.
Is there an example or two that you can give that sort of explains both your choice of the book and your way of reading it?
Give me another book.
I'm loving the range of books that we're building up in this imaginary bookshelf of yours.
What else would you put on the shelf with the ones you've offered up so far?
One of his very first.