Belle Burden

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818 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 30 Apr

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Marginalia · Belle Burden on her memoir 'Strangers' · 22 Jan 2026 podcast

And I lodged it in my brain.

I believed it.

And I thought, OK, that is definitive.

I'm not a writer.

I'm going to figure out something else to do, which was the law.

But now when I look back on it, I really think the problem was that I believed it.

And I have two daughters.

And I would be just horrified if they took this one guy's opinion over their own.

So the thing that got me past it finally, I think, is in having my life as I knew it, like the main components of my life disappear overnight, essentially, and feeling so raw and kind of the comfort of life, you know, that you build over 20 years, having that go away, I think I was able to access it.

It just sort of was there again.

And a desire to...

It felt like a lot of different narratives were floating around.

And I really just wanted to write down what happened.

But what I returned to as I wrote down what happened was an interest in the art of it.

Like, how do you create something that has suspense and is the kind of writing that I like that's a little more spare?

And I got really interested in that.

And that I had not felt in a very long time.

Thank you so much for asking about it.

Yes, we started it before the pandemic.

I have a law partner who is the mother of one of my daughter's friends, and she's also a former corporate big firm lawyer.

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