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Funny, fantastic and weird books with Laurie Foos

On the Why We Write podcast: Laurie Foos is the author of sometimes funny, always fascinating fabulist fiction, including her most recent novel, The Blue Girl, as well as a foray into realistic fiction with her novella Toast. In this interview we talk about moon pies, autism, and writing unusual stories.

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Episode notes

Laurie Foos is the author of seven novels and novellas. As she explained in a New York Times(link is external) interview, “I want to push the limits of reality, to make things seem absurd and grotesque in order for the reader to see things in a new way.” For example, in Ex Utero a woman loses her uterus in a shopping mall. In The Blue Girl, the lives of three sets of mothers and daughters are overshadowed by the appearance of a blue girl, to whom the mothers feed moon pies in secret. 

Laurie's work has been categorized as fabulist and magical realism while addressing issues of family, suburban malaise, and the role of women.

She is currently on the faculty of Lesley University’s low-residency MFA Program. In this interview, she speaks with Georgia Sparling.

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