Rainbow Rowell wants to write about "messy" characters
I want to write about messy people who have messy, complicated things that are hard to explain—and maybe that means that the books feel a little messy sometimes.
Host Nathan Maharaj spoke with fiction and comics writer Rainbow Rowell, author of the novels Eleanor & Park and Fangirl, as well as the 2017 revival of Marvel’s Runaways comic book series, the current run of She-Hulk, and many other books and stories. Her newest book is Slow Dance, the story of a couple of grown-ups who’ve been friends since they were kids but didn’t manage to stay friends through early adulthood. 14 years after they last spoke to one another, they're trying to figure out what kind of relationship they have now—and whether they might not have been exactly right about what kind of relationship they had back then.
Slow Dance
They were both going to get out of north Omaha—Shiloh would go to go to college and become an actress, and Cary would join the Navy. They promised each other that their friendship would never change.
Now Shiloh’s thirty-three, and her life is nothing like she planned. When she’s invited to an old friend’s wedding, all Shiloh can think about is whether Cary will be there—and whether she hopes he will be.
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