Farzah Draki

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148 total appearances

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

Yeah.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

Farz, what about you?

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

I've been on a non-fiction essay role at the moment, which I know doesn't really fit into the brief of this program.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

I'm sorry, but... All reading is good reading.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

I have become obsessed in the last year with Gia Tolentino, who's an American Canadian author.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

And she published a book last year called Trick Mirror.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

And it's just, I think, nine or 10 essays.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

They're all about 10,000 words long.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

They look at everything from...

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

to drug use, to the internet.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

And I think she's such an interesting voice of my generation, millennial generation, I think.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

She was a staff writer for The New Yorker and someone said of her recently that...

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she has changed the New Yorker's voice more than the New Yorker has changed her.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

I just think she has this amazing way of kind of encapsulating some of the concerns we have at the moment about social media and the internet and the effect it's having on our brains.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

But also I love how she writes in this really equivocal way.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

Often in her essays, she doesn't

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

leave you with one idea or she's not certain about anything.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

And I think that's something that's really true of my generation.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

I mean, there are lots of self-deluded people who are in their early 30s and late 20s, and I'm probably one of them.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

So I can strong relate, as the youth would say.

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