Molly Shannon: ‘Hello, Molly!’
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Molly, What Motivated You to Read Wild Nights With Emily?
The book is so vivid, molly, and to start it with that particular incident. Our whole life changed in an instant. That second ad we were going to now begin a new life. I felt defective. I felt like i must be bad. The book becomes a sort of walk through your life with these objects that you remember and how one thing led to another. It's interesting when you bring up wild lives with emily, because you know emily dickinson was a lesbian and she had a relationship with her brother's wife, susan. She did what she could do for that time when that was not accepted, she made it work.
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