Commonplace Podcast
Commonplace Podcast
Rachel Zucker
Episode 129: Reading Eugenia Leigh’s Bianca
1 hour 11 minutes Posted Oct 11, 2024 at 8:38 pm.
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Eugenia Leigh joins the Reading with Rachel live-virtual salon to discuss her newest book, Bianca. Leigh tells the story of writing Bianca and talks about the role of therapy in the writing process, why she enjoys revision and prefers it to writing, strategies for avoiding burnout, complex PTSD, Bipolar II Disorder, Christianity, trying to write without re-traumatizing the self or the reader, de-romanticizing the relationship between mental illness and art making, what she likes about couplets, regrets about the final form of the book, time travel and much more.