But if you’re going to live in that world for so long and it’s choice you make, do I want to be there? Do I want a book about torture? Do I want to spend two years with this and that? I think that’s the harder choice. When you write crime novels, it is inevitable that sexual assault comes in. There are certain subjects I wouldn’t want to have a whole book on.
There are some things you don’t want to live in that long. Megan Abbott: I think everything is difficult to write. Like it seems tricky to me to write sex, but is there certain subject areas or material that’s difficult to write more so than others? I hope this isn’t embarrassing in any way, but you write about masturbation very well and I wonder if there are any topics or subjects that are especially difficult type of material-or not-for you to write about. I it leads me to a question I wanted to ask, and, Julie, I was thinking about your book. Listen to this week’s readings!Ĭatherine LaSota: Sarah, you’re talking about that essay and how you can still become emotional when reading it. This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on May 9, 2017, with Megan Abbott ( Give Me Your Hand), Julie Buntin ( Marlena), and Sarah Gerard ( Sunshine State). Join them each week for stories, readings, and discussions with acclaimed writers, recorded with a live audience in the cozy carriage house of a classic pub in Long Island City, Queens, New York, and hosted by founder Catherine LaSota. Told in a haunting dialogue between past and present, Marlena is an unforgettable story of the friendships that shape us beyond reason and the ways it might be possible to pull oneself back from the brink.Where is all of the literary love for Queens? It’s right here at LIC Reading Series. Now, decades later, when a ghost from that pivotal year surfaces unexpectedly, Cat must try again to move on, even as the memory of Marlena calls her back. Within the year, Marlena is dead, drowned in six inches of icy water in the woods nearby. Cat is quickly drawn into Marlena's orbit and as she catalogues a litany of firsts-first drink, first cigarette, first kiss, first pill-Marlena's habits harden and calcify. The story of two girls and the wild year that will cost one her life, and define the other's for decadesĮverything about fifteen-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Named an Indie Next Pick and a Barnes and Noble Discover Pick Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, BuzzFeed, The Washington Post, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, NPR, NYLON, Huffington Post, Kirkus Reviews, Barnes & NobleĬhosen for the Book of the Month Club, Nylon Book Club, and Belletrist Book Club Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A National Book Critics Circle Leonard Prize Finalist
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