Alessandra Ranelli
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317 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard May 2026
last heard 14 May
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I gave myself a year to try and get it together.
But when that year came up, I still didn't have an agent.
I still hadn't quite finished the book, but I had just published an essay in the New York Times.
So I felt confident enough at that point to take the risk, but it was the biggest gamble I've ever taken in my life.
Yeah.
How do I love all of that?
No, I really thought it might.
But my modern love essay, which I'm very proud of, is autobiographical.
It's closer to the work I'd been doing as a storyteller.
And it's obviously a more moving subject matter.
But I think Murder at the Hotel Orient is what I call a spicy whodunit.
And it's deeply unserious.
It's humorous.
It's over the top.
It's reality amplified and put in a vintage soft focus glow.
And so the Modern Love piece did earn me one agent who requested the full.
But when I sent it, it was A, an early draft.
But B, I think if you came into the project from reading the essay...
The book was not, was always going to disappoint because the essay was seven and a half years of a marriage boiled down into 1500 words and confronting mortality and what it means to love someone and be married.
Like it was a huge thing in a small amount.
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