Author Lilly Dancyger is one of the most punk rock, badass writers to stop by the Jam Bunker. She and Brad talked about growing up as working class kids, working through the rage that simmers beneath the surface of that life, and the joy of coming out on the other side.
Her book, Negative Space, comes out next year (but pre-orders are open now)!
About Lilly Dancyger
Lilly Dancyger is a contributing editor at Catapult, and assistant editor at Barrelhouse Books. She’s the editor of Burn It Down, a critically acclaimed anthology of essays on women’s anger from Seal Press, and the author of Negative Space, a reported and illustrated memoir selected by Carmen Maria Machado as a winner of the 2019 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards, forthcoming in 2021.
Her writing has been published by Longreads, the Washington Post, Glamour, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and more. She lives in New York City.
[…] Lilly Dancyger and I fell into a conversation about the pain and anger that comes from being working class. But we also talked about how that experience, once you’re on the other side, allows you to see the world differently. (From Episode 96: Lilly Dancyger) […]