Carly Lewis

On the difference between being alone and being unreachable — and what you can only hear once you stop being available. In Late Harvest, there is a cottage. It sits at the edge of a working vineyard outside Stellenbosch, and Dominique goes there to vanish. Readers write to me about that

On Miriam’s line, and the difference between a life with a lot in it and a life that is crushing you. There is a line in the Cape Town Series that I did not write so much as transcribe. Miriam Sobukwe — old enough to have stopped being polite about

Cape Town Field Notes #1. The first dispatch from inside the setting. Late Harvest was set in Stellenbosch wine country. I had never been to Stellenbosch when I wrote it. I wrote from images. From wine essays. From the wine I drank knowing it came from there. From an Instagram

The six titles of the Cape Town Series are not decoration. They are instruction. Six books. Six titles. Late Harvest. PRESSED. BLOOM. The Lighthouse Keeper. The Crossing. The Summit. Each title is a verb in disguise. When I started writing the Cape Town Series, I thought the titles were labels