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which is a really brilliant way to get at the menace and greed thats so prevalent in our real estate–obsessed culture.I remember our teacher assuring us the light would hit the netting inside and it would look very dramatic! But I was also just old enough to sense a slightly queasy feeling among a few parents.

ABBOTTIve always thought that was one of the most compelling things about teaching—how you can see versions of yourself.Abbott began to write about the violence of seemingly all-American girls in seemingly all-American suburbs.she wrote and coproduced a television adaptation of her novel Dare Me and is now doing the same for The Turnout.

These kinds of characters feel less subversive because they are so common in popular films and books—which is a fraught evolution.It can be dangerous—as in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie—but I suppose it can save someones life.

These mysterious and private rituals of young women—these dark fairy tales—are at the heart of Abbotts work.

Can you talk about the language? It feels like a subversive choice to avoid being lyrical or adoring about the female bodyAny year when we get to see female-centered and female-crafted works of art as great as Nomadland or I May Destroy You is a good year indeed.

about a woman who becomes unknowingly involved with a serial con man with a string of women in his past who were similarly duped.I guess its because theres such a richness to the voice of someone who is experiencing everything for the first time.

Id been very affected by the response to the wildly popular Dirty John podcast and the ensuing TV series.Though Im not sure the punishment matters because the hold she retains over those stories and the popular imagination is far greater.