SILVER LAKE / HARLEM — Allie Rowbottom is the author of Jell-O Girls (Little Brown, 2018). She recently wrote this story in Hobart: https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/auralift She teaches writing classes for Catapult and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the writer Jon Lindsey. Buy her book: http://www.allierowbottom.comPOD CONTENTS:3 min - pod start6 min - how jell-o girls written thru reading her mom’s writing10 min - on the blend of her / her mom’s pov .. influences11 min - Jane (2005) by Maggie Nelson15 min - speaking oneself into selfhood / marketing of the book20 min - on sharing / generosity , exhibitionism22 min - the survival instinct as energizing25 min - on myopia/linearity vs empathy/panopticality29 min - on radical superficiality / Botox30 min - taking theory outta the classroom32 min - articulating the unsayable34 min - whether one can objectify oneself for power or nah35 min - Marguerite Duras41 min - botched Lil B the BasedGod riff42 min - hysteria = ‘wandering womb’ (hyster-ectomy)45 min - me admitting im a toxic male 47 min - privilege vs pain49 min - how able to manage health issues explored in the book, now52 min - person you wrote about as character vs real person54 min - edging on the pull. Till it’s time58 min - real life ramifications of book1 hr - dating another writer = double suicide pactIntro song: "Thank You" by Yamz https://soundcloud.com/yeums/thank-you-masterSean Thor Conroe lives in NYC and tweets @stconroe and grams @seanthorconroe