The Perils and Pleasures of Writing About the Past, featuring Christina Baker Kline
Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers
English - December 07, 2020 10:00 - 33 minutes - 16.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 372 ratingsBooks Arts health business interview entrepreneurship culture productivity comedy politics entrepreneur leadership Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This week we are talking about writing about the past—and how history so rarely gives space to marginalized voices. Our guest is the #1 New York Times best-selling author Christina Baker Kline, who shares why it’s problematic that women writing about the past get ghettoized into historical fiction, and how she’s followed the threads of her last three novels, all of which have been set (at least in part) in the past. We love her activism and clear-eyed thoughts on publishing, women and writing, and so much more.