Amid all this professional change,Luckiest Girl Alivehas been an anchor.
This has been the thing that’s been with me the most, she says.
The novel follows the perfect-seeming Ani, a womens magazine editor determined to hide her past trauma.
The film has the same conceit, but Knoll has evolvedsince the books publication, and so hasLuckiest.
Below, Knoll reflects on the merits of theReal Housewivesfranchise, dirty martinis, and Lorde.
On her favorite recent read:
The best book I read recently wasVladimirby Julia May Jonas.
It looks like it’s an ironic novel, but the writing is very top-notch and literary.
All of it is just really subversive and fun.
So really it’s just being lazy on the couch with my dog, Beatrice, and watchingReal Housewives.
I watch obviously Beverly Hills, New York, and Salt Lake City.
My therapist always uses the metaphor, Go with the skid.
On the books that line her desk:
My desk is pretty neat.
I can’t listen to that album without being transported back to that time.
I listened to a lot of Florence and the Machine as well.
But all my other books and screenplays have mostly been done in silence.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
This article was originally published onOct.
source: www.bustle.com
