This week I spoke to writer Nada Alic. She’s the author of Bad Thoughts and working on a forthcoming novel. I came over in the morning, left in the late afternoon. We hung out for an hour or two then recorded for nearly three more. As you'll hear, she's incredibly intelligent and clearly creative, yet so humble and funny.

In this second part, we take questions from some mutual friends, and she talks about her somewhat secret 3:00 ritual, her thoughts on comparisons to other artists, romantic relationships, meeting her husband, friendship, novel research wormholes, and more. In part one last week, we covered everything from our first communions and lingering Catholic guilt to shadow integration, how she ended up in LA, disembodiment, body image, and cancel culture.

Show Notes:

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-Read Nada's article in Harper's Bazaar, "Eternal Girl Summer"

-Buy Nada's book, Bad Thoughts

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