Alexandra Tanner turned her doom scrolling habit into ‘Worry’ a high-anxiety novel about two siblings that will make you clench and laugh in equal measure.
Have you ever read a book and wished it came with a syllabus? Welcome to Works Cited, where we ask authors about the books, movies, music, art, and TV that influenced or inspired their writing., personifies the cultural desensitization to violence that comes from our daily social-media cocktails in its always-worried narrator, Jules.
Part domestic novel, part internet observation, this book is not only about mother-daughter relationships. The star of the show is really the strange intimacy between siblings. Jules’s sister, Poppy, moves into her cramped apartment for five months. Tanner was inspired by her experience living with her sibling in a studio apartment for five months, too.
Her work as a whole is about domesticity, care, and characters having these big interior experiences that become kind of metaphorized through the magic of what you can do on a stage. I was thinking about these big, emotional moments.I like Sheila Heti’s work and the way she pulls from life and uses real conversations and creates all these different versions of herself and her friends. Readingin 2014 was a huge experience for me. It was probably the first autofictive book that I read.
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