Siri Hustvedt

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449 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 4 Aug

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Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky · Siri Hustvedt · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

There still can be this idea, for example, in Hollywood romantic films or comedies that – or even in Jane Austen, although she ironizes it very heavily, that it ends with a marriage, right?

That, okay –

Now you're happy, a happy ending.

But, of course, life isn't like that.

And it's dynamic.

It's not static.

As I say in the book, you know, happiness is not like climbing Mount Everest.

You get to the top and then you sit there.

And I think, you know, we were never bored with each other.

And I think boredom is a swift way to kill a relationship between two people.

And in a way, I think it relies on a falsehood, which is that you can completely know the other.

I don't think I ever felt that with Paul.

And I don't think he ever felt that with me.

And part of it was that I think until the very end, we surprised each other.

Yeah.

You must miss him tremendously.

I do.

Every day.

I do miss him.

I think that what happens in grief, or in my grief, I can certainly speak to that, is that even though I knew Paul was dying, he was sick with lung cancer, I knew

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