Law in Literature: The Case of Hollow Spaces

About this episode

This episode features a discussion on the intersection of fiction writing and law with Victor Suthammanont, focusing on his novel 'Hollow Spaces'.

This episode explores the intersection of fiction writing and the practice of law. Victor Suthammanont, a writer and attorney, discusses his first novel, Hollow Spaces, published earlier this year. Hollow Spaces explores race and racism, the legal system and the search for truth, and, perhaps more than anything else, family – the enduring impressions, connections, and relations between husband and wife, parents and children, and brother and sister. In his conversation with Associate Dean Rodger Citron, Suthammanont describes his journey from student actor to experienced attorney and published author. Even now, Suthammanont continues to draw on skills he developed as an actor in his legal practice. Suthammanont then discusses various aspects of the novel, including the characters’ efforts to learn the truth about the underlying events that shape the stories told in the novel. Whether you are an attorney or a law student, a writer or a theater kid considering a career in law, you will enjoy listening to this episode.

People in this episode

Host: Rodger Citron

Guest: Victor Suthammanont

Topics covered

• law and literature
• fiction writing
• race and racism
• legal system
• family dynamics

Keywords

• law
• literature
• fiction
• Hollow Spaces
• race
• legal practice
• family

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Hollow Spaces

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