Brian Moylan is the New York Times best-selling author of The Housewives: The Real Story Behind the Real Housewives and has written about television and pop culture for the New York Times, The Guardian, Vice, NBC News, and a few outlets that are NSFW*.
*We had to look it up too — means Not Safe For Work
Katherine and Brian discuss:
- Early writing life, including what to be aware of when writing obituaries
- Recapping Real Housewives episodes
- What you’re critiquing when you’re critiquing reality TV
- Engaging with criticism of your own work
- His book The Housewives: The Real Story Behind the Real Housewives.
- Challenges writing a book when all your interviewees are told not to talk to you
- Whether The Real Housewives is good for women (as suggested by Gloria Steinem) or bad for women (as suggested by Roxanne Gay)
Brian’s advice for other writers:
- Good writers are good readers
- Good poets borrow, great poets steal
ID: Image of a white cis man with a moustache. He is resting his chin on his hand smiling at the camera with his eyebrows raised, in a way that seems somehow ironic.
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