I had read the leslie jamieson book at the empothe exams not that long before i started writing the book. And in that she talks a lot about behave like acting out behaviours, which people decry by saying, you're just looking for attention. She has this response, which is sort of like a, well, ye, and maybe i need the attention, you know. Even if it's an ugly way of gessing it itis, it's not actually an inherently evil thing to want attention. I don't think o.i get people being weary about reading the same sorts of subject matter over and over again or the same register of confessional journalism over and
Megan Nolan’s debut novel, Acts of Desperation, was hailed as a masterpiece by the literary world when it was published in 2021. Searingly honest and darkly amusing, it tells the story of an obsessive relationship. Written in glimmering prose, it charts a young woman’s elation as she falls in love and the obsession, anxiety and self-doubt that ensue. Nolan is also an acclaimed journalist and essayist whose writing appears in The New Statesman, The Guardian and The New York Times. She's joined by fellow journalist and author of the dark satire, How To Kill Your Family, Bella Mackie, to discuss her work.
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