Episode 67 - Laura Lippman: Part 3

In the final part of Laura Lippman's This Writing Life podcast, we begin by discussing trigger warnings: the fine line between offensiveness and individual sensitivities. From there we move to:

• how violence is portrayed on the news
• secrets and Lippman's family
• 'I was brought up by Southern parents. Don't ask anybody their age. Never talk about money. I think part of the reason I became a journalist it gave me license was to ask those questions...'
• Lippman and her heroines: Tess Monaghan and Luisa Brant
• Lippman and her father
• history, taking down statues and the politics of women on $10
• 'We are doing something right now, today, that is going to seem despicable in 50 years...'
• posterity, Lippman and crime fiction
• crime v literary fiction: Lippman and the never-ending genre-wars
• 'There are so many books. You have to be arrogant to have anything to say...'
• after some blatant references to The Wire, Richard Price and Dennis Lehane, we move to the social realist novel
• a little afterword on James Crumley
• 'Elmore Leonard is my role model'
• George Pelecanos, Elmore Leonard and Lippman's cute nose...
• what next?