The protagonist, who i just keep calling her, yes, because she is nameless. But you look to me, he is kind of incidental, because i'm so invested in her story. What were your thoughts about him as you were writing it? Ye, i think i thought about him as an object of her desire, mostly. And unlike, i, i imagined the way he looks and an liked the way that he would make her feel more than more than i imagined his inner life.
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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