The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara

Episode 466: Katie Goh on Issues of Identity and the Trappings of Mythology


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"Mythology can be really a dangerous thing, because  mythology feels like it can't be changed, or it's always been something," says Katie Goh, author of Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange (Tin House Books).

Katie Goh is a writer and editor based out of Edinburgh, Scotland. She’s also the author of the slim book “The End: Surviving the World through Imagined Disasters” about disaster movies. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Extra Teeth, and VICE. You can learn more about her at katiegoh.co.uk or follow her on IG @katie_goh. 

In this conversation we tackle:

  • The love of being edited
  • Having to selfish to be a writer
  • Finding obsessions
  • Issues of identity
  • Style and voice
  • And the trappings of mythology

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