“The Apparent Author,” Meriç Algün Ringborg’s latest exhibition in Istanbul’s Gallery NON, presents a sound installation of an author talking about “her artistic goals, ambitions, and potentials,” as Rumpus contributor Kaya Genc writes in The Paris Review.
Genc makes a startling observation about the author’s workplace: there is “a shelf holding more than one hundred books devoted to helping authors finish their manuscripts.”
While the books on writing offer exercises and strategies for those planning to do creative work, Genc questions the idea that “a book is something that the writer grows, like a child, and that the literary voice is something one can find in a manual.”
