New York Times bestselling author and educator, Helen Schulman, spoke to me about her winding path to bestseller, why a writing career is 90% sweat and rejection, and how the #MeToo movement inspired her latest novel, LUCKY DOGS.
Helen Schulman is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, including Come with Me and This Beautiful Life, and she is currently the Fiction Chair of the Creative Writing Program at The New School.
Her latest, Lucky Dogs, is described as a novel that “... lays bare what happens to women—no matter how fortunate they may appear to be on the surface—whose lives have been warped by brutality and misogyny.”
Best-selling author Jennifer Egan called the book, "Part thriller, part Hollywood satire [and] a brash, sometimes heartbreaking saga in which trauma and self-preservation converge across decades and continents. This is Helen Schulman's best novel yet."
Helen Schulman’s fiction, non-fiction, and reviews have appeared in such places as Vanity Fair, Time, Vogue, GQ, The New York Times Book Review, and The Paris Review. She also serves as Executive Director for WriteOn NYC, a fellowship program that provides free creative writing instruction to underserved New York City school children.
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In this file, Helen Schulman and I discussed:
Why her latest book isn’t funny
Her intensive research process
Why she wrote her latest from bed
Her passion for helping underprivileged kids discover a love of writing
How to tell if a writer is going to “make it”
And a lot more!
Show Notes:
Helen Schulman | The New School
Lucky Dogs: A Novel By Helen Schulman (Amazon)
Helen Schulman Amazon Author Page
WriteOn NYC – Connecting passionate writers to New York City students
Aspen Words
Kelton Reid on Twitter
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