Discovering Magic with Helene Wecker

12/17/20 • 42 min

NYT best-selling author, Helene Wecker, shares her thoughts on busting down barriers, discovering magic, and having an outrageous partner. Learn more about her perspective as we discuss:

writing her first novel
the importance of staying "loose" as a writer
capturing her family's Jewish and Arab American stories
her outrageous washi tape advice

Guest Biography
Helene Wecker’s first novel, The Golem and the Jinni, was awarded the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature, the VCU Cabell Award for First Novel, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and was nominated for a Nebula Award and a World Fantasy Award. Her second novel, The Hidden Palace: A Tale of the Golem and the Jinni will be published in June 2021 by HarperCollins. A Midwest native, she holds a B.A. in English from Carleton College and an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in literary journals such as Joyland and Catamaran, as well as the fantasy anthology The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and children.

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NYT best-selling author, Helene Wecker, shares her thoughts on busting down barriers, discovering magic, and having an outrageous partner. Learn more about her perspective as we discuss:

writing her first novel
the importance of staying "loose" as a writer
capturing her family's Jewish and Arab American stories
her outrageous washi tape advice

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Transcript

Helene00:00:00.000

That moment of deciding that this was something that I needed for myself and that I valued enough and that it was worth putting a little uncertainty a little scariness factor into our lives to do it was because it was going to make me a happier and better person overall.

Lady Grey00:00:27.480

Hello, you lovely humans. Welcome to the live outrageously with Lady grey podcast. I'm your hostess lady grey. And I have had t