Navigating the Interplay of Truth and Fiction in Writing

Tavi Gevinson is a writer, actor, and the founder of Rookie. Her new zine is Fan Fiction.

“Stories are unstable, and memory is unstable, and identity is unstable. All of these things that I've tried to make permanent in writing, they're actually unstable. So even though it's tempting to go, Oh, that was fake, it's more like, No, it was just temporary.”

Show notes:

• @tavitulle
• tavigevinson.world
• Gevinson on Longform
• Gevinson on Longform Podcast
• Gevinson’s Rookie archive
• 10:00 Operation Shylock (Philip Roth • Simon & Schuster • 1993)
• 10:00 Erasure (Percival Everett • Graywolf Press • 2011)
• 14:00 “Taylor Swift Has No Regrets” (Elle • June 2015)
• 20:00 I Love Dick (Chris Kraus • Semiotext(e) • 1997)
• 24:00 “Who Would Tavi Gevinson Be Without Instagram?” (New York • Sept 2019)
• 40:00 “Editor’s Letter” (Rookie • Nov 2018)
• 50:00 “The Special Panic of Singing Sondheim” (New Yorker • Dec 2021)

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