54: Allie Rowbottom on JELL-O GIRLS (2018)

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.com POD CONTENTS: 3 min - pod start 6 min - how jell-o girls written thru reading her mom’s writing 10 min - on the blend of her / her mom’s pov .. influences 11 min - Jane (2005) by Maggie Nelson 15 min - speaking oneself into selfhood / marketing of the book 20 min - on sharing / generosity , exhibitionism 22 min - the survival instinct as energizing 25 min - on myopia/linearity vs empathy/panopticality 29 min - on radical superficiality / Botox 30 min - taking theory outta the classroom 32 min - articulating the unsayable 34 min - whether one can objectify oneself for power or nah 35 min - Marguerite Duras 41 min - botched Lil B the BasedGod riff 42 min - hysteria = ‘wandering womb’ (hyster-ectomy) 45 min - me admitting im a toxic male 47 min - privilege vs pain 49 min - how able to manage health issues explored in the book, now 52 min - person you wrote about as character vs real person 54 min - edging on the pull. Till it’s time 58 min - real life ramifications of book 1 hr - dating another writer = double suicide pact Intro song: "Thank You" by Yamz https://soundcloud.com/yeums/thank-you-master Sean Thor Conroe lives in NYC and tweets @stconroe and grams @seanthorconroe