This episode was brought to you in part by Adeline’s Aria by Laynie Bynum, the first in her new Infernal Echo series, out Jan. The next six-week session of The Slow Novel Lab begins on February 16th, and you can enroll today by going to. The presenting sponsor for this episode is The Slow Novel Lab, a six-week online writing and creativity course developed and taught by bestselling and award-winning novelist Nina LaCour (listen to her First Draft episodes here and here). If you like Marginally, you should check out #amwriting, with Jess and KJ, where two much more experienced writers talk through their processes with each other and celebrated guests.įirst Draft Episode #230: Miranda Popkey Miranda Popkey, essayist and debut author of Topics of Conversation. Have a question you'd like us to try to answer, or a topic you'd love to have us cover? Interested in being a guest? Contact us here. We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed talking to them!Īs always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.įind us on Meghan's occasionally on and music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá. Right now, she lives in Massachusetts with her husband and her dog, and her first novel, Topics of Conversation, was published by Knopf on January 7, 2020. She’s lived in California, Connecticut, Texas, New York, Missouri, and Italy. Miranda is a writer, editor, social worker, and translator from the Italian. She also writes YA, including the forthcoming novel Look, out on March 31 (make sure to preorder!), and lives in LA. Zan Romanoff writes essays, journalism, and fiction, with a particular focus on and interest in areas of culture that don't always get the respect they deserve: stuff like fandom, food, and the Kardashian clan. They also talk process, craft, and day jobs and writing – basically everything. Zan Romanoff and Miranda Popkey met in college, and they talk to us about how their friendship has evolved, its role in their writing, and about writing women’s friendships in fiction. Today, we’re sharing a conversation with a couple of writers who are definite goals – as writers, of course, but especially as friends. running away from the readerĥ6 min - Rachel Cusk, Rings of Saturn by Sebaldġ hr - me virtursignalling that I've read Wuthering Heightsġ hr 2 min - the line between wanting to sleep with someone and be themġ hr 5 min - the 'Dylan' character and forgiving your parents I read it slowly, over the summer and then again, this time quickly, over the past three days.Ģ3 min - becoming aware of underlying narratives / assumptionsģ6 min - on LA Confidential / violent masculinity as ‘attractive’Ĥ2 min - is the essentializing of gender biological or taught or both or does it matterĤ9 min - book as invitation to examine one’s desiresĥ3 min - flirting with vs. One of the most immediate, intense, complicated books I’ve hit in a minute. Her debut novel, Topics of Conversation (2020), published by Knopf in January, is an absolute banger. I went to middle and high school in Santa Cruz, CA.
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