In the lead-up to the release of her first novel, the author talks about art, cynicism and the human fascination with pain
ri Lee is always working. It is obvious in the deeply confessional books she has written: using her law degree and story of being molested as a child to explore how the law handles sexual crimes ; her own eating disorder to examine body image ; and her anxieties about her own intelligence driving an investigation into the sexist, racist, classist history of education .
it’s clear: hard work, powered by a deeply deliberate drive to do what it needed to get exactly where she is. If you want to be able to pay your rent in the 21st century as an artist, you have to be a cynic about the industry “The only closure I could come to is that I really think that our human fascination with each other’s pain is the best thing, and the worst thing, about us. We are moved to action and altruism, we are moved to help and change, by other people’s stories. But we also have this 21st century media churn of trauma narratives and if you have some identity that has made your life more difficult, that is more appealing to the media.
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