The space between the stories: An interview with Thomas Morris

In this interview, Thomas Morris discusses the intersection between place and selfhood in the collections We Don’t Know What We’re Doing (Faber & Faber, 2015) and Open Up (Faber & Faber, 2023), reflecting on the tension between mobility and immobility, past and present, and the individual and collective. Throughout the interview, Morris also sheds light on the literary influences behind his short fiction and the particularities of the short story collection or ‘suite’, in constructing a sense of place. The following interview took place over e-mail between June and September 2024.