Julie Lythcott-Haims
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1,079 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2019
last heard Mar 2021
Julie Lythcott-Haims’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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everything in this book was flattering.
No, no, no, I'm joking.
I learned that lesson, Debbie, from my amazing editor, Barbara Jones.
Big shout out to Barbara Jones.
She's been my editor now through three books.
And
When I was writing my second book, my memoir, to which you just alluded, Real American, which is about me being black and biracial in white spaces and dealing with racism and microaggressions, I had written all kinds of stories.
That book, the form is kind of little vignettes across 200 pages.
And my editor said, Julie, you're not telling any of the bad things you did, any of the shameful things, the things you regret, the things that make you wince.
And I'm like, of course not.
I want the breeder to like me.
And she said, Julie, you want the reader to root for you to continue turning these pages and ultimately, you know, arrive at some place of growth or discovery or what have you at the end.
And they won't root for you if they don't see that you're exquisitely human, which means flawed, screwed up, you know, et cetera.
They will relate to you if you show your imperfections.
And, um,
Of course, it made perfect sense.
I already somehow knew that in my mind, but I wasn't ready to do that on the page.
So, yeah, I'm I'm trying to show look younger human than me.
I have done things I'm not proud of, but they're really human things.
And you may do those, too.
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