
Tin House Live : Rebecca Makkai on The Ear of the Story
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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How to Be an Other Woman
When there is a second person in a story, it's so obvious that there's a you that we are supposed to become. It becomes much less obvious in a story that kind of just seems to float freely and exist on its own. I want to take us through some examples here, starting with a really overt second person. So this first one on here is Lori Moore, How to Be an Other Woman. This is not from the very beginning, but of how to be an other woman. After four movies, three concerts and two and a half museums, you sleep with him. He tells you he likes you a lot. You lie in your stomach, naked and still too warm.
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