I think for many of us who have had these kinds of childhood, it takes a long time to figure out that maybe something was a little bit off. But energy is what i felt. There was always this really rocky and wild energy. I gathered as much from conversations as i wrote in my book,. Drawing barry more's ghost written memoir, little girl lost, was really important to me at that age. This was the first glimpse of some one else who had a life that referenced alcoholism and her father trying to drink the fuel of something because of his alcoholism, and partying and houselike oh, me and drew barrymore share this secret. We're the only two people who
T Kira Madden is a writer, photographer, amateur magician, and a powerful voice and editor, earning fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Hedgebrook, Tin House, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She is the founding Editor-in-chief of No Tokens, a journal celebrating work that is "felt in the spine, run entirely by women and non-binary individuals, dedicated to featuring the words and artwork of all voices of the past, present, and future, here to keep stories alive and to make a physical object to hold in your hands." Madden's 2019 memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, dropping you into a wildly colorful and character-filled childhood. She also teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and we explore all of this in today’s conversation.
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