Janice Lee with Brenda Iijima: November 29, 2018

Steve Dickison introduces Janice Lee, who then begins the night reading an excerpt from The Sky Isn't Blue dedicated to Will Alexander titled "Ocean Beach Pier." Next Lee reads "The Dogs," followed by a manuscript from their forthcoming work Imagine a Death. Lee finishes her performance with the literary pieces "The Tree" and "The Whales."

Brenda Iijima begins with introductory remarks regarding Janice Lee and her work, with their conversation focusing on Lee's work and tendencies in her writing and thinking. They discuss Lee's play with paradox in regards to oppositions. Iijima about the connectivity between Lee's various works. Lee credits her understanding of connectivity to her mother, to her Korean roots, and to her relationships to animals and inter-species communication. Iijima asks Lee about her affinity for addressing "the catastrophe," her relationship to the English language, and how she believes her work is changing, and brings up their common reading of works by Robin Wall Kimmer and Luce Irigaray. The conversation, opened up to the audience, turns to the process Lee has experienced while cultivating her science fiction novel-in-progress, her thoughts on repetition, the work of British biologist Charles Foster, her feelings on being considered as a Korean-American writer, and other concerns.