Lee Cole on the ethics of writing about home, and the people who stay and leave small towns
Автор: Liam Bishop and the Rippling Pages
Загружено: 2025-11-12
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Welcome to the latest episode of the Rippling Pages. I’m having a coffee with Lee Cole, the American writer from Kentucky. And we’re talking about balancing the feelings and ethics of writing about home.
Now living a humdrum life in Kentucky, Emmett spends his days packing boxes in a warehouse. But what happens when he begins to dream of another life—and when those dreams start to fracture his family relationships?
These questions lie at the heart of Fulfilment, Lee Cole’s second novel. The book follows two half brothers whose clashing ambitions—Emmett’s longing to be a screenwriter and his brother’s academic ideals about “rural despair”—go beyond a simple difference in worldview. Something deeper threatens to pull them apart.
Lee is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is also the author of Groundskeeping. Both his novels were published by Faber in the U.K. The New York Times has described his work as “Anne Tyler by way of Sally Rooney.” Originally from Kentucky, Lee joins me today from Philadelphia.
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1.35 - Ann Tyler and Sally Rooney
5.05 - why Kentucky
7.25 - people who leave and stay in small towns
9.30 - why does Emmett wish he had what Joel has?
11.10 - southern fried rendition of Marx
12.10 - warehouses
16.12 - the difficulty of warehouse jobs
18.30 - Kentucky’s beauty
19.45 - backgrounds and worldviews
21.45 - guilt about writing about home or
22.30 - rippling pages bookshop
23.35 - Alice’s role
26.15 - Alice’s dream of owning a farm
28.50 - knowing what our desires are
32.50 - writing about writers impulses
Books
Wendell Berry
Annie Dillard
Sigmund Freud
Aldo Leopold
Karl Marx
Sally Rooney
Anne Tyler
John Updike
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