SILVER LAKE / HARLEM — Allie Rowbottom is the author of Jell-O Girls (Little Brown, 2018). She recently wrote this story in Hobart. She also wrote this story in Post Road. She teaches writing classes for Catapult and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the writer Jon Lindsey.
Here is the Salon piece Allie mentions, about writing about her dad.
Buy her book.
Here is the Salon piece Allie mentions, about writing about her dad.
Buy her book.
POD CONTENTS:
3 min - pod start
6 min - how jell-o girls written thru reading her mom’s writing
10 min - on the blend of her / her mom’s pov .. influences
11 min - Jane (2005) by Maggie Nelson
15 min - speaking oneself into selfhood / marketing of the book
20 min - on sharing / generosity , exhibitionism
22 min - the survival instinct as energizing
25 min - on myopia/linearity vs empathy/panopticality
29 min - on radical superficiality / Botox
30 min - taking theory outta the classroom
32 min - articulating the unsayable
34 min - whether one can objectify oneself for power or nah
35 min - Marguerite Duras
41 min - botched Lil B the BasedGod riff
42 min - hysteria = ‘wandering womb’ (hyster-ectomy)
45 min - me admitting im a toxic male
47 min - privilege vs pain
49 min - how able to manage health issues explored in the book, now
52 min - person you wrote about as character vs real person
54 min - edging on the pull. Till it’s time
58 min - real life ramifications of book
1 hr - dating another writer = double suicide pact
Intro song: "Thank You" by Yamz
Sean Thor Conroe lives in NYC and tweets @stconroe and grams @seanthorconroe
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