1 hr 6 min
Allie Rowbottom — ”The questions in your writing are the questions in your life.” Slow Stories
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- Society & Culture
Who are you when no one is looking? This question came to mind when reading Allie Rowbottom's incisive debut novel, Aesthetica. The story follows Anna, a former Instagram celebrity, on her path of reflection and redemption as she seeks to undergo a high-risk elective surgery called Aesthetica™, which is said to "reverse all her past plastic surgery procedures, returning her, she hopes, to a truer self."
As readers bounce between Anna's past and present, Allie paints a nuanced portrait of a woman stepping into herself while considering her relationship with fame, family, and the trappings of a landscape predicated on image and youth. In this interview, Allie shared more about why Aesthetica is a continued conversation from her memoir JELL-O Girls, her thoughts on privacy and pace, and embracing womanhood.
This episode also opens with a story by Dakota Bossard.
A transcript of this episode is also available on our website: https://slowstoriespodcast.com/allie-rowbottom
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Learn more about Allie's work: https://allierowbottom.com/
Follow Allie: https://www.instagram.com/allierowbottom/
Purchase Aesthetica: https://bookshop.org/p/books/aesthetica-allie-rowbottom/18180848?ean=9781641294003
Follow Dakota: https://tiktok.com/@dakotabossard
Who are you when no one is looking? This question came to mind when reading Allie Rowbottom's incisive debut novel, Aesthetica. The story follows Anna, a former Instagram celebrity, on her path of reflection and redemption as she seeks to undergo a high-risk elective surgery called Aesthetica™, which is said to "reverse all her past plastic surgery procedures, returning her, she hopes, to a truer self."
As readers bounce between Anna's past and present, Allie paints a nuanced portrait of a woman stepping into herself while considering her relationship with fame, family, and the trappings of a landscape predicated on image and youth. In this interview, Allie shared more about why Aesthetica is a continued conversation from her memoir JELL-O Girls, her thoughts on privacy and pace, and embracing womanhood.
This episode also opens with a story by Dakota Bossard.
A transcript of this episode is also available on our website: https://slowstoriespodcast.com/allie-rowbottom
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Learn more about Allie's work: https://allierowbottom.com/
Follow Allie: https://www.instagram.com/allierowbottom/
Purchase Aesthetica: https://bookshop.org/p/books/aesthetica-allie-rowbottom/18180848?ean=9781641294003
Follow Dakota: https://tiktok.com/@dakotabossard
1 hr 6 min