Episode #5: The Technology of Grieving: Candace Nunag Tardío
Julie interviews novelist Candace Nunag Tardío about her forthcoming debut novel, Solar Flare. We talk about infinite time, the afterlife of media, and various technologies of memorialization. We discuss Walter Benjamin and Vilém Flusser, suicide and trauma, and the value of movement for movement’s sake. We discuss presence as a way to trouble "homogenous time," and wonder what efforts toward happiness we might owe to our dead.
Candace Nunag Tardío is the author of the forthcoming book A Solar Flare (FC2, 2025). She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado Boulder and is currently working on a PhD in Literary Arts & Creative Writing at the University of Denver. Candace is also the founder and director of Last Writes, a project centered around eulogy and obituary writing advocacy for people with no prior writing or public speaking experience.
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