What a fascinating and important perspective Laleh offers. I am a former newspaper reporter turned novelist and creative non fiction writer and the current news informs my writing, how can it not? We cannot write the world separate from it.
Thank you Amy! When writers get accused of "navel-gazing," it's often because they've bought into the romantic myth of the solitary writer divorced from the world. But our writing means nothing without context, and the news provides that context. Our work inevitably suffers if we're not informed about the RL global world around us.
Yes! And I have to say Glorious Boy is rich with the context of that period. I am reading your novel and savoring it. And my anthropologist daughter can’t wait to read it next.
Aw, thank you so much, Amy! Yes, WWII gave even the most remote parts of the world a potent taste of the global news catching up with them. We ignore current events at our peril. I hope your daughter approves !
What a fascinating and important perspective Laleh offers. I am a former newspaper reporter turned novelist and creative non fiction writer and the current news informs my writing, how can it not? We cannot write the world separate from it.
Thank you Amy! When writers get accused of "navel-gazing," it's often because they've bought into the romantic myth of the solitary writer divorced from the world. But our writing means nothing without context, and the news provides that context. Our work inevitably suffers if we're not informed about the RL global world around us.
Yes! And I have to say Glorious Boy is rich with the context of that period. I am reading your novel and savoring it. And my anthropologist daughter can’t wait to read it next.
Aw, thank you so much, Amy! Yes, WWII gave even the most remote parts of the world a potent taste of the global news catching up with them. We ignore current events at our peril. I hope your daughter approves !