baby bruise and female loneliness epidemic by danielle chelosky

it’s another double dip of danielle chelosky’s writing this episode, as we cover baby bruise and female loneliness epidemic.

after lamenting what twitter has become (and what we lost), we talk about the title of chelosky’s short story collection, how frank o’hara’s meditations in an emergency relates to the work, and how we continue to approach her work as though it’s not auto-fiction. we talk about the evolution of stories written about young people, the vivid first lines in female loneliness epidemic, and the benefits of telling technology-agnostic stories. we explore the evolution of chelosky’s writing from cheat through “terror,” and we pivot to discussing baby bruise by discussing how her short-form writing compares to her longer-form stuff.

in discussing baby bruise, we talk about teen girl music tastes and the relatability of the musical taste elements in the text, whether the character of dave is very sad or high comedy (or both), and how the book never gets as dark as you imagine it might.

reading list for season fifteen

cheat and show me your face by danielle chelosky
pregaming grief by danielle chelosky
baby bruise and female loneliness epidemic by danielle chelosky