S08 E07 Marian Keyes
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Marian Keyes is the world-renowned, bestselling author of multiple novels and collected essays. Her Walsh Sisters novels have been turned into a successful television series, and she has won the British Book Awards and Irish Book Awards several times.
Marian joins Fiona and Gail to talk about the challenges that women writers face and why she hopes that editors will never go easy on her.
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Marian joins Fiona and Gail to talk about the challenges that women writers face and why she hopes that editors will never go easy on her.
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Fiona and Gail would love to hear from you. Please join the conversation here:
Email: hiddenlivesofwriters@gmail.com
Instagram: @thehiddenlivesofwriterspod
Twitter: @hiddenwriterpod
YouTube: The Hidden Lives of Writers
Threads: @thehiddenlivesofwriters
Facebook discussion group: The Hidden Lives of Writers
Chapters
- 00:00 Introduction and Writing This Week
- 05:00 What We've Been Reading: The Amateur and Chris Bohjalian
- 06:55 Introducing Marian Keyes
- 08:23 Marian's Writing Week: Deadlines and Deep Focus
- 11:18 Word Counts, Good Days, and Surprises on the Page
- 12:35 Character Bibles and Knowing Your People
- 15:26 Plot: Embracing the Unknowable
- 18:17 Character First, Issue Second
- 20:18 The Origin Story: Watermelon and Rehab
- 27:01 Women's Fiction vs. Literary Fiction: The Double Standard
- 30:49 Returning to the Walsh Sisters
- 34:14 Getting Unstuck: Walks, Friends, and Stream of Consciousness
- 37:37 Marian as a Reader: Books, Obsessions, and Reading Moods
- 41:32 Irish Literature and South African Literature: A Parallel
- 45:11 Social Media and Marian's Mother, 'Old Woman'
- 50:37 Parasocial Relationships: Giving and Receiving
- 55:26 Chasing Marion and the South African Character in the New Book
- 01:01:03 The Editing Process: Notes, Fury, and Defiance
- 01:03:58 Favourite Book: Favourite Child?
- 01:06:10 What Marian Has Been Watching and Reading Lately
- 01:11:42 Reflections After the Interview
- 01:16:26 Generosity in Literature and the Non-Zero-Sum Game
- 01:17:02 Outro and Book Announcement
