Episode 259: Lilly Dancyger on Building Community and Finding Her Father in ‘Negative Space’

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By Brendan O’Meara

Lilly Dancyger (@lillydancyger) is here to talk about her new book Negative Space. She also edited the collection Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger.

Negative Space is a detective story as Lilly seeks out her father’s past. He passed away when she was a very young girl. He was a brilliant artists, but tortured by addiction.

It’s a wonderful book, brilliantly told. We get into:

  • The 10-year journey of the book itself
  • Community over networking
  • Voice
  • Dropping out of high school
  • Getting into grad school
  • What she’s reading now
  • A recommendation
  • And much more

Thanks to WVWC’s MFA in Creative Writing for the support and to Hippocamp 2021 for the promotional support. And the word Blunger. Couldn’t have done it without you, Blunger.

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