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