The Art of Losing: On Writing, Dying, & Mom
How do we reconcile chaos with control? Cataloging moments of poetry and disaster, novelist and essayist Ruth Ozeki makes sense of family quirks, history almost lost, and the death of parents. Read More

Author / Teacher
Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. Her first two novels are My Year of Meats (1998) and All Over Creation (2003), and her most recent work, A Tale for the Time-Being (2013), was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and will be published in over thirty countries.