Teddy Wayne
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208 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
Teddy Wayne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Write something truthful, but not be gratuitous about it, is how I would think about it.
And maybe make the prose a little bit more elegant in those moments.
There's advice that when you're writing about violence, make it beautiful.
Don't make the violence itself look ugly in your prose.
maybe when you're writing about this really primal, animalistic lust drive, write about that, too, in a somewhat elevated way so that it cuts against the baseness of the desire.
There's also a bit of a meta thing going on, too, in that this kind of writing is more migrated to female-authored novels, I'd say, that books like All Fours by Miranda July
feature female sexual awakenings and consciousness and desire.
It's not anathema to do it anymore with men, certainly there are books like that, but
When Philip Roth did it 50 years ago, it was the default.
No one blinked an eye at it.
It was unquestioned that this is how you write about sex.
Now to write in a Rothian style would raise eyebrows.
And so you have got to find a way to do it.
And also just it's outdated.
The Rothian viewpoint is very archaic.
shouldn't be aired anymore.
It's just sort of an antiquated way of seeing the world, at least the sexual world.
So I'm trying to find a way to thread the needle here, and I hope I've done it, but I'm sure some people will be still turned off by too much sex.
I think with The Winner, that was occasionally the case.
My sense is that a lot of people thought it was a sort of wish fulfillment on the part of the author to write sex scenes like this, and I don't think that's what I was going for.
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