Sep 09 2024 81 mins 1
Content Warning: In this episode, we discuss suicide, depression, and self harm
Sofia Ajram joined me to talk about COUP DE GRÂCE, her upcoming novella, an intense, personal, existential, liminal nightmare that will make you think deeply about what life is all about.
In our talk, we cover myriad topics including liminal spaces and stories and how things like depression can be liminal, we talk about book covers and the creative process, I compliment the dense and poetic use of language in the book, the Elevator Game, body horror, and a lot more. It’s a lot of talk for a book that’s 130 pages.
I feel like we both went to some personal places in the conversation, and got vulnerable, and I feel like I needed to talk about things like how someone’s story can make you feel seen or understood. So, if you like when people get vulnerable and real, this is going to work out for you, I think.
We also talked about the COUP DE GRÂCE book trailer, which is fantastic and you should watch right now!
Sofia reading from COUP DE GRÂCE
AFTERPARTY!
This episode did spin off an Afterparty discussion which, if you’d like to hear it, you’ll need to be a paid subscriber (any amount) here on my Substack.
The paywall is my way of protecting people from hearing spoilers they maybe didn’t intent to hear. If you make it to an Afterparty, you had to do some work to get there.
It should go without saying, but the afterparty episode does contain spoilers for the book, but it was an amazing conversation and I really hope you choose to listen.
Finally, here’s the YouTube version of the main episode, for you YouTube lovers:
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