In conversation with Michael Berkeley, Stephen Grosz tells his own story: his childhood in Chicago, the son of immigrants who ran a grocery store; student days in radical Berkeley; and now, settled in Britain, how he’s facing the challenges of fatherhood and ageing. Music has played an important part right from the beginning, and Grosz admits that his choice of music is very psychologically revealing.
And interview with Tim Black for Spikd! It’s getting late. Outside, the glare of the winter sun has given way to the airless purple of a cold January evening. A patient is due any moment now. But, as my interviewee makes profoundly clear, there really is no time like the present. So I ask one […]
‘I would rather shoot myself than have therapy. It’s part of growing up in Norway in the 1970s; you don’t cry and you don’t complain’ Karl Ove Knausgaard, Evening Standard In May 2014, the Lutyens & Rubinstein Bookshop arranged for Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of the My Struggle novels, to meet in conversation with Stephen […]
Recorded at Waterstones in Hampstead, Lucy Kalanithi, widow of Paul Kalanithi, talks to psychoanalyst and author Stephen Grosz about her husband’s memoir When Breath Becomes Air.