Out on a Limb With Jeremy Strong

I read a book by Siri Hustvedt, who was married to Paul Auster, this great book called What I Loved. I read it a long, long time ago, but I remember something she wrote. There’s a sentence that said, “Only the unprotected self can experience joy.” And I guess that I’m interested in that—not just joy, but I would say life. And so if I then sit down with you and start calibrating everything I say and I start protecting myself, then I’m just in some mummified life.

I was thinking about why…