Jenny Jackson

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367 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 29 Jun

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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing · June Bonus Episode · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

To me, it's that it is so very morally tricky to write about real people.

And that's something that I have run into as a writer and very much as an editor is

And so even though writing from real life can make characters incredibly realistic and can give the reader this incredibly visceral experience, it can also be quite ethically challenging for a writer.

And Caroline can only do it that way.

She can only write.

That's her process.

She pulls from real life and she has, you know, she talks about how when she was younger, she wrote a story about her best friend,

And she put it towards her senior thesis, but her best friend still doesn't know about it because she knows that if she ever published it, that would be harmful.

So this is something that she walks around feeling guilty about, but it is her way.

And I think I really wanted to sort of discuss some of these scandals that we've seen in the publishing industry.

Robert Kolker's amazing article, The Bad Art Friend, or the scandal around Cat Person, or

I mean, there's more than we could possibly count.

People sort of coming forward and saying, you wrote about me.

Or, you know, even like Ann Patchett writing about Lucy Greeley in Truth and Beauty.

I mean, some of the most incredible works of art have been drawn from real relationships and real people.

But it always treads the line of sort of a moral gray area.

And it's juicy.

Who's allowed to tell what story?

If you go out to dinner with a writer...

and you both witness something, who does it belong to?

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