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This was a treat, getting to speak with Jen Winston, the debut author behind Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much (Atria).
In this episode we talk about:
- Some of the hidden costs of having a book published, even if traditionally published
- Writing her book in three months with a full-time day job
- Memoir as a radical medium
- Essays vs. straight memoir
- ‘You’ as a narrative device
- And the tricky grammar ballet of they/them pronouns for the nonbinary
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