Jessica Lahey
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877 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2017
last heard Apr 2021
Jessica Lahey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because as writers, you know, we're only as generally speaking, unless you've are able to be out on the road speaking, and I'm very fortunate in that we're generally only as relevant as whatever we wrote last.
And so
I was constantly thinking, what's next?
And the sophomore slump thing is real and scary, really scary, especially when your first book, you know, my first book had like this big.
fourteen publisher b editor bidding war and you know, how am I supposed to top that?
What what on earth can I do to sort of
at least create something that um that I'm proud of and that's, you know, meets expectations.
And so I think that was actually really a stumbling block for me for a long time.
And my agent actually told me that first books can happen really quickly because you've you've been thinking about it for a really long period of time and all these ideas have been coalescing and no one saw that process.
That could have been going on for 10 years.
But the second book, everyone starts asking what's your next book almost immediately, and there's a lot of pressure and
And I proposed all kinds of things that were like, eh, fine.
Like I I queer I gave my agent all kinds of ideas and she's like, Mm, not yet.
That's not it.
But you know, we're closer, whatever.
And I was driving down to and I had been teaching at the rehab, I guess, for about two or three years, assuming I would not write about that.
Like I wrote about it for the New York Times and
Um, just the experience of asking kids who had gotten into the weeds of substance use disorder, like what any adult in their most receptive moment could have said to them that might have made them think differently about substance abuse.
But I had no, no thinking that I was gonna write a book about it.
And then I was driving down to Boston um for an event and I had to pull over off the side of the highway because all of a sudden all of the ideas I'd had that were eh not quite sort of coalesced into one thing.
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