Abbigail Rosewood, novelist

F***ing Shakespeare

On today’s show, we have novelist Abbigail Rosewood. Jessica, Phuc, Abbigail, and I discussed the virtues of buying hibiscus plants from people who unofficially sell them on the streets of Brooklyn. We bring you another arousing author-psycho-therapy session starring Your Past, and how maybe you shouldn’t always listen to workshops and/or the things professors say out loud but maybe should not. Bonus: Jessica explores her abiding love and avocation for place as character . . . Basically if this episode were a reality TV show, our tagline What Happens When People Stop Being Colonizers and Start Getting Allowed to Write Their Own Freaking Stories.

Abbigail’s debut novel If I Had Two Lives is available now. While you’re waiting for the book to come in, watch the most gorgeous of all book trailers, written and directed by Ash Mayfair for If I Had Two Lives here.

Check out her other works and interviews

• A short story called “Letum” which appears in Columbia Journal, “Maybe” in Green Hills Literary Lantern, “Stolen Things” in The Adirondack Review, “Banana Tree” in The Missing Slate.

• Fun fact: she was also an assistant fiction editor for The Missing Slate.

• An essay about how “Publishing Your Novel Won’t Cure You”

• Her take on the 2019 Winter Institute

• Her interview with Adroit Journal about how “Truth Has Many Faces”

• and with Columbia Journal on “Striving for the Sublime.”

Abbigail’s Honorable Mentions

• Elena Ferrante

• Ágota Kristóf

• Labyrinth

Visit Abbigail’s website for more of her inspiration from literature, movies, and music. Also follow her on Twitter or Instagram for more furry friends, plant love, and other musings.

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