Episode 98: Torrey Peters
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Rachel Zucker talks with novelist Torrey Peters about her novel, Detransition, Baby. They talk about the Iowa Writers Workshop, trans writers writing for a trans audience, how writing for others like yourself raises the bar, Peters’ experience self-publishing her first two novellas, the tools cis readers could gain from reading trans stories with empathy, and the new experience of adapting her novel for television.
Books by Torrey Peters
Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones (self-published, 2016; revised edition forthcoming from Penguin Random House, 2022)
The Masker (self-published, 2016; revised edition forthcoming from Penguin Random House, 2022)
Also Referenced
T. Fleishman, Time is a Thing The Body Moves Through (Coffee House Press) and Syzygy, Beauty (Sarabande Books)
Darcey Steinke, Flash Count Diary: Menopause and Vindication of Natural Life (Macmillan)
Rachel Cusk, Outline Trilogy (Macmillan) and Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (Picador)
Susan Sontag, Illness as a Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors (Picador)
Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope (Grove Atlantic)
Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)
E. M. Forster, Maurice (written 1913-1914, published 1971)
Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian-American Reckoning (One World)
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