Why are we so quick to assume that female novelists’ work is autobiographical?
This week, bestselling author Megan Nolan joins us to discuss her latest book, Ordinary Human Failings, as well as the unfair and invasive publicity faced by female writers, how assumptions of real-life connections between authors and their work undermines the creative process, and why a work of fiction can just be fiction.
Catch Love Lives on Independent TV and YouTube, as well as all major social and podcast platforms.
This week, bestselling author Megan Nolan joins us to discuss her latest book, Ordinary Human Failings, as well as the unfair and invasive publicity faced by female writers, how assumptions of real-life connections between authors and their work undermines the creative process, and why a work of fiction can just be fiction.
Catch Love Lives on Independent TV and YouTube, as well as all major social and podcast platforms.
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00:00 You know that it's no secret that female novelists are continually asked if their work is autobiographical
00:04 because people don't seem to understand that women have an imagination.
00:07 It's true with lots of female novelists when they write about difficult subjects and then
00:12 are kind of expected just to answer questions about it.
00:17 In a way it's like, well, I wrote a book to not have to say these things.
00:22 There's a reason why I wrote the book rather than an article and want to explore those
00:26 things in a less determined way.
00:29 People are really blunt about asking, like, have you been sexually assaulted?
00:33 And quite literally someone asked me that live on a recording.
00:39 Why is it that we live in a world where people think they can ask you that?
00:42 Particularly live!
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