Lauren Elkin
Writer
Georges Perec’s Species of Spaces planted the authorial seed for Lauren: ‘I thought, writing can be this! Indexes of things seen, thought, felt, eaten!’ It sent the writer – whose bilingual novel Scaffolding comes out next year – on a quest to capture ‘what Perec calls the “infraordinary”: the otherwise insignificant’. Her Object Lesson the January 2024 issue indexes some everyday things of the young Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.
