The writer, curator, and gal-about-town always seems to be wherever culture is converging
detailing their meet-cute reported that Hoover answered the front-desk phone when Sachs called. “She was very sassy,” he said.) Hoover’s ease on the social circuit owes much to her time spent managing the many eccentric personalities found in the art world. “Thank God I’ve been in therapy for so fucking long because I feel like I’m good at understanding what people really mean when they’re having a tantrum or whatever,” she says.
Hoover recently sold her book to Simon & Schuster, and it is currently being adapted for television. She hopes it will be a counternarrative to the many prevailing stories about motherhood. “I felt lied to by every possible cultural narrative about motherhood,” she says. “Motherhood is put on this pedestal in the sense that there are very few ordained paths that you’re allowed to take.
Hoover grew up in Indianapolis. Her parents met in law school as her mother collected books for the semester on her first day. “I’ve never seen them fight,” Hoover says. “They love each other possibly too much.” She admits they are eccentric and have always been progressive in a red state. Her dad, John, is a corporate litigator, and her mom, Martha, spent time as a sex-crimes prosecutor before leaving law to enter the restaurant industry in 1989.
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