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The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Ariel Saramandi (view source)
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In this [[Portrait of an Island on Fire by Ariel Saramandi|powerful collection of essays]], Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life.
* '''Bookbag: We usually ask authors about who they feel their readers are, but actually we'd like to start by asking you about the style of your essays. What is your process when beginning to structure an essay? What about the essay form attracts you most? In what ways do you, as you put it in one of your most recent Substack posts (''The question I'm dreading''), ''experiment[s] with the form''?'''