I started sending things to literary journals. So I wrote, you know, badly before I could write better and started sending my work out. But, yeah, somewhere in that transition I just decided to go back to that whole school thing. And then I had a really supportive English teacher. I was like, I’m going to write noir and I’m gonna illustrator it and I had no idea what like detectives even were when I was ten.Īnd then I wrote bad poetry, and then I wrote good poetry and then I wrote bad prose and then I wrote good prose. But to be a writer was something that I wanted to do since I was ten. I think it’s important to tell the truth about that. Kashana Cauley: Well, I have a financially and emotionally supportive husband. Can you just talk a little bit about getting from antitrust law to entertainment? I think there’s a show called The Great North, if I have that right. You had a lawyer job and then somehow you go from that to having a really funny Twitter feed, to writing for Trevor Noah’s The Daily Show, to Pod Save America. You’ve been able to transition to a creative career with a plum, and I want to track that because I think listeners will be curious, how you did it. Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts!īrad Listi: But you have had a very, from the outside looking in, varied and successful career. Her debut novel, The Survivalists, is out now from Soft Skull Press.
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