Lily King

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769 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club · Heart the Lover by Lily King with Lily King · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

And it was like trying to encapsulate all my rage about the Trump administration.

And that's really not a great, it's not a great motive to write a book, really.

A novel.

And so I switched gears and I flipped to the back of my notebook that I was writing in and I just wrote the first scene where this, you know, young woman, senior in college, is in a classroom and her professor is reading her essay that she wrote and she gets the attention of the two smart guys in the class.

Yeah.

Well, and I also think if you have a point, if you have a political axe to grind or a point to make, it's not always, at least for me, the best thing.

you know, way to think of a novel.

I think with novels, I have to be more open-minded and kind of let the story unfold as it will unfold.

And so that is actually what happened with Casey.

I didn't know I was writing about her.

I mean, I was just I was writing along.

I was writing these scenes or, you know, maybe like a scene and a half or something.

And then in the very back of my notebook, I always keep notes.

And so I was going to take a note about Casey's husband because I knew we were going to make this big leap in time.

Yeah.

And so.

I mean, I was thinking about it as this young, unnamed narrator.

I didn't have a name for her, and I didn't even notice that I didn't have a name for her.

But I needed to make a note about her husband.

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