In this interview, Lola Kirke discusses her memoir, her move to Nashville, and the allure of the Wild West. She reflects on her journey from New York to the heart of country music, exploring themes of freedom, cultural shifts, and the search for belonging.
, is pink—and that it depicts her mounting a bucking bronco atop the Washington Square Park arch. Because one thing is for sure of the horny manny’s, Royal Tenenbaum siblings, and cowboys within its pages: it sure isn’t lilac. Kirke’s memoir, both hilarious and poignant, reminded me of Electric Light Orchestra’s “Wild West Hero,” blending saloon-style piano with rock chords. The song paints the mythic figure occupying so many of our American minds: the cowboy, the cowgirl.
NOURAI: Now that that’s out of the way, I’m curious, with both of these having this kind of Wild West theme, how do you feel now that you are actually closer to the Wild West? You’re now in Nashville.love living outside of New York. I am so grateful for the eccentricities that I grew up around, but it’s really made the appeal of stability quite large for me. I really did think Nashville was the height of culture when I got there, which I suppose is the opposite experience for a lot of people.
NOURAI: Something that really blew me away is that your parents have these illustrious pasts that are vivid and colorful, so if you weren’t careful, that could eclipse you. I thought you did a really wonderful job of slowly introducing them, and then it kind of crescendos with the text message about the divorce. Do you feel like it was just enough of them?
KIRKE: I love that quote. That’s something that I’ve come across a lot in my journey towards maturity. It’s interesting because my family, despite their bohemianism, there was a lot of emphasis on the outside. If it looks good, it is good. So I really brought that with me into my adult life. I’ve always compared my insides to other people’s outsides, because I believed for so long that the outsides were far more valuable.
NOURAI: I mean, you’ve created some meaning-making, a narrative of your own life here. And I’m curious, now that this is out in the world, is there that feeling of, “Will these ever come into conflict with one another? Will I ever resort to this book to tell me what my memories were?”
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