Solitude Versus Sociability: David Means and Candace Bushnell on Being Alone and Making Connections fiction/non/fiction

In this episode, acclaimed fiction writer David Means and Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell share their experiences with solitude and sociability in quarantine. Means, author of the recent short story collection Instructions for a Funeral, talks to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about how writers use solitude to their advantage. Bushnell discusses the crucial role social life and friendship plays in Sex and the City and in the lives of New Yorkers. She also speaks about her new novel Rules for Being a Girl.
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This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope. 
Guests:

David Means

Candace Bushnell



Selected readings for the episode:
David Means

Instructions for a Funeral

Assorted Fire Events

The Secret Goldfish

The Spot

Hystopia

“Two Ruminations on a Homeless Brother”


Candace Bushnell


Rules for Being a Girl (co-written with Katie Cotugno)

Is There Still Sex in the City?

Sex and the City

Summer and the City

The Carrie Diaries

Lipstick Jungle

 
Others


I See the World by Jamaica Kincaid, Paris Review Daily


On Isolation and Literature, The Millions

William Carlos Williams

Katie Cotugno

Anna Karenina

Edith Wharton

Jane Austen

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa

Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood


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