2017-04-03
1 小时 4 分钟You know, when I realized that that was what I was going to be doing, I was so horrified and petrified.
It was not a welcome, like, oh, this is a good idea.
I'm going to write about my marriage.
Yay.
It was absolutely petrifying because I was writing about a relationship that I intended to stay in, one that I had no interest in betraying, but one that I wanted to find a way to write about truthfully.
How do you write about a relationship truthfully without betraying it?
Without betraying the person you know with whom you're in the relationship with?
This week's guest, Danny Shapiro, is a memoirist and novelist who's been on Oprah's super soul Sunday and pretty much every other publication, media outlet you can find.
We actually met a number of years back, hanging out at a small gathering in New York City, and I invited Dani on when her last book came out to talk about the writing life.
She's got a new book out, a memoir called Hourglass, which takes a pretty deep dive.
Look at her life over the last 18 years or so, really focusing on her marriage.
And it's incredibly raw, incredibly truthful, honest, revealing.
And I wanted to dive into that journey with her, both the things that she shared and also what it was like for her as a writer, as somebody who's married and a mom, to be that revealing in the work that she was doing in the world.
Really excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
I have sort of this interesting context with this book, too.
So I finished reading it yesterday morning, went from there to see Hamilton with my daughter, and I was like, there are some really interesting tie ins in so many different levels.
And there was a moment in Hamilton where towards the end, after he had wronged his wife in a major way and also lost his son through some, and she walks behind him and grabs his hand, and I'm just like, oh.
That was such a stunning, stunning moment in a stunning, stunning production.
But, yeah, the way that Hamilton plays with time, even that scene in the middle of Hamilton where the wedding is both happening, Eliza and Hamilton's wedding is both happening, and it's being observed as if it's from a distance.