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S6 Ep235: Interview: Cecilia Rabess

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Cecilia Rabess previously worked as a data scientist at Google and as an associate at Goldman Sachs. Her nonfiction has been featured in McSweeneys, FiveThirtyEight, Fast Company and FlowingData, among other places. Everything’s Fine is her debut novel.

Katherine and Cecilia discuss: 

  • Early writing life 
  • Donald Trump is Destroying My Marriage - article in NY Magazine that inspired Everything's Fine  
  • Writing an 'opposites attract' love story, when the opposites part is that people are on opposing sides of the political spectrum 
  • Working to humanise Josh 
  • Wringing out your prose, making it as clean as possible 
  • How she went about getting an agent 
  • Having your book be at the centre of a Tiktok controversy and her theories on why this happened 
  • Writing infographs for McSweeneys
    • Cecilia's writing advice: It doesn’t have to be perfect, but you have to finish. No one has ever published an unpublished manuscript.

    Debut book recommendation: Shark Heart by Emily Habeck

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