Episode 178: Elisa Gabbert — Tweet-Size Ideas and Letting Time Do the Work

Elisa Gabbert

By Brendan O’Meara

“Time is doing so much work.” — Elisa Gabbert (@egabbert)

Here we are again, friend. Elisa Gabbert is here to talk about how she comes up with her ideas for essays and not being afraid to cast a book aside because there’s so little time to waste time not finding a mind-blowing book.

You can pre-order her new book, which comes out in August 2020. We don’t talk about what it is, but you can still pre-order the thing. The Unreality of Memory.

We talk about her essay collection The Word Pretty, quite a bit, and how she goes about the work while having a full-time job in a non-writing field. It’s good stuff.

You might want to pair this episode with Elena Passarello or Leslie Jamison or Natalie Singer.

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