Lauren Elkin [Host: Kaycie Hall]

On today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Kaycie Hall interviews Lauren Elkin.

Kaycie Hall is the lead editor of our online journal Autofocus. She's also a writer and literary translator, whose work has appeared in Peach Mag, Neutral Spaces, Triangle House Review, and other journals. 

Lauren Elkin is a writer and translator of many books, most recently the author of Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art and the UK translator of Simone de Beauvoir's previously unpublished novel The Inseparables. UK and US versions of her novel Scaffolding are coming out later this year.

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PART ONE, topics include:

-- winding down publication publicity

-- growing up focused on the performing arts 

-- Lauren's previous book Flâneuse

-- Lauren's new book Art Monsters

-- intervening in the conversation around feminism

-- the temptation to make the book about one person

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PART TWO, topics include:

-- pregnancy shifting the shape of the book 

-- the pandemic contributing to the shifting

-- Lauren's translation  work

-- managing reading hours (or not)

-- a forthcoming novel

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Podcast theme music  by Mike Nagel, author of Duplex and Culdesac. Here's his music project: Yeah Yeah Cool Cool.

The Lives of Writers is edited and produced by Michael Wheaton.

Episode and show artwork by Amy Wheaton.