BOOKS 36: DOON ARBUS'S THE CARETAKER
WITH DOON ARBUS
I was lucky to speak with writer Doon Arbus about her debut novel, The Caretaker, published September 2020 by New Directions books. It's a spell-binding, intricate and haunting tale of a world-renowned philosopher's house museum filled with his collection of objects, and the mysterious man who becomes the museum's caretaker. In our conversation, Doon and I discussed the idea that objects carry their own histories with them, how we behave in museums, and whether it's necessary to carefully curate or, perhaps, to completely destroy a biography in order to appreciate an artist's or writer's work.
If you're interested, for the audio book the amazing Alan Cumming lends his voice to Doon Arbus's book in the audio version of The Caretaker.
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