I guess you could say in Smashed, bingeing was both the subject and the process. My editor really had to help me crack it open and find the book encased within this crazy word count. I wrote the first draft in four months and it was at least twice as long as it was supposed to be. All I had was youthful enthusiasm and the kind of poor boundaries that lead a person to overshare. Before Smashed, I had only written poetry and interoffice memos, so I had absolutely no concept of pacing. Smashed was probably the more difficult of the two. We caught up with Zailckas to ask her a few questions about her debut.ĭid you find it more difficult writing your first memoir ( Smashed) or your first novel? How did the processes differ? Her debut novel, Mother, Mother, is the story of the Hurst family, whose perceptions of themselves have been twisted by the machinations of their narcissistic and overbearing matriarch, Josephine. Author Koren Zailckas, whose best-selling memoirs Smashed and Fury chronicled her troubled youth, again taps into her own life experiences-but this time, she’s writing fiction.
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