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This week on The Maris Review , Keziah Weir joins Maris Kreizman live at P&T Knitwear in New York City to discuss The Mythmakers , out now from Simon & Schuster. Subscribe and download the episode , wherever you get your podcasts. Episode 210: Keziah Weir Forward 15 seconds Back 15 seconds Share Subscribe Description * from the episode: Maris Kreizman: I’m wondering if you could talk a bit about some of the inspiration for the idea of Sal finding herself in a story. There are some real life circumstances I can think of and I’m curious what you were thinking about. Keziah Weir: There are some things that, when you are around writers who are writing and when you are young and in maybe undergraduate circumstances and you start seeing yourself in other people’s work, that’s sort of an interesting thing. That’s maybe not always true. Maybe sometimes it is. But then just as I started interviewing authors for my magazine jobs, people just always say that no matter who the character is or you know what they are, like the people in their lives believe that they are about them. And, and then there are of course a lot of authors who have very much made a whole career of writing about themselves and the people around them to various effect. MK: So, Keziah, look into the audience. KW: Yes. I see all my characters here today. MK: I also love that Sal is very aware of some of the conversations that come up or around such things. I think it was on page 146 when I got to the part where Moira asks Martin, well, do you think we’re like the couple in The Wife (Meg Wolitzer’s novel about a famous writer and his long-suffering spouse)? And I was like, oh, see, they’re already there. We’re already contemplating what would happen if, spoiler alert, this doesn’t happen in this book. But if the wife was actually the one who was doing the writing. KW: Yeah. And, and I think one of, you know, one of the […]
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