Writer Mother Monster: Liz Harmer, “I’m interested in my own desire.”
Writer Mother Monster
English - October 28, 2020 22:00 - 59 minutes - 41.2 MBBooks Arts Kids & Family Parenting writer mother author literature fiction parent parenting motherhood working mother writer mother Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
“I’m interested in my own desire.”
Liz Harmer is the author of The Amateurs and Strange Loops, forthcoming in 2022. She’s a Canadian living in California with her children who are 13, 11, and 8, and describes motherhood in 3 words as “challenge and delight.” Liz came to our interview straight from the ER, and there’s probably a lesson in there about how mothers feel the need to be superwomen, pushing ourselves to exhaustion. She also talks about transgression, mental health, and the evolution of desire.
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