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"The thing about writing is it's a passion, a pleasure and a compulsion, and yes some days are hard, but it's the best thing in the world and that mitigates much of the anxiety and worry, and it has a way of influencing the practicalities," Sarah Hall told us earlier this week in her Five Easy Questions interview.

 In her first novel, Haweswater, Hall captured the difficult lives of a 1930's farming community in England. When she reads the novel out-loud, her rough and bloody language takes on new, physical presence.

 Here's our Proudly Lo-Fi Introduction to Sarah Hall, recorded at KGB Bar in Manhattan. Here, Hall reads about a country schoolhouse in Haweswater.