Episode 98: Torrey Peters

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Rachel Zucker talks with novelist Torrey Peters about her novel, Detransition, Baby. They talk about the Iowa Writers Workshop, trans writers writing for a trans audience, how writing for others like yourself raises the bar, Peters’ experience self-publishing her first two novellas, the tools cis readers could gain from reading trans stories with empathy, and the new experience of adapting her novel for television.

Books by Torrey Peters

• Detransition, Baby (One World, 2021)

• Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones (self-published, 2016; revised edition forthcoming from Penguin Random House, 2022)

• The Masker (self-published, 2016; revised edition forthcoming from Penguin Random House, 2022)

Also Referenced

• Topside Press

• The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard, ed. Tom Leger and Riley MacLeod (Topside Press)

• Imogen Binnie, Nevada (Topside Press)

• Casey Plett

• Iowa Writers Workshop

• T. Fleishman, Time is a Thing The Body Moves Through (Coffee House Press) and Syzygy, Beauty (Sarabande Books)

• Darcey Steinke, Flash Count Diary: Menopause and Vindication of Natural Life (Macmillan)

• Fleabag

• The First Wives Club

• Elena Ferrante, Neapolitan Novels (Europa Editions)

• Rachel Cusk, Outline Trilogy (Macmillan) and Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (Picador)

• Jenny Offill

• Susan Sontag, Illness as a Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors (Picador)

• Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope (Grove Atlantic)

• Zoe Whittal

• Alexander Chee

• Kristen Roupenian, “Cat Person” (The New Yorker)

• Sylvia Plath

• Virginia Woolf

• Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)

• Dave Chappelle

• E. M. Forster, Maurice (written 1913-1914, published 1971)

• Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality (1897)

• Jane the Virgin

• Sex in the City

• Friends

• Seinfeld

• The Simpsons

• Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian-American Reckoning (One World)
  

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