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Emma Gannon’s year of desert rest
Season 7 · Episode 12

Emma Gannon’s year of desert rest

The Clearing with Katherine May · Katherine May

February 14, 202659m 21s

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Show Notes

Prolific author of nine books and writer behind the Substack phenomenon The Hyphen, Emma Gannon takes us away for a whole year to her imaginary retreat in Palm Springs, where she plans to indulge almost solely in her number one favourite pastime  - reading.


Revealing the extent to which she craves alone time, she tells Katherine about her very real experience of burnout, how she went from someone who lived to work to appreciating downtime and why she relates to The Hermit in Tarot. 


An inspiring listen that challenges our ideas of ‘the right way’ to live and embraces the concept of letting go. 



Links in the show: 


Emma’s Substack The Hyphen

Emma’s website

Emma’s Instagram 

A link to buy her books including A Year of Nothing


Find Emma’s conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert about memoir here 

Max Richter’s track On the Nature of Daylight 


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Buy Katherine’s books: Enchantment | Wintering | The Electricity of Every Living Thing: UK / US

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Production Credits


Guest Booker and Admin Support - Meghan Hutchins

Substack Manager - Rebecca Armstrong

Producer - Alice Lloyd

Music - The Leaf Library @theleaflibrary


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