CHRISTMAS BONUS EPISODE: Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott on writer’s block and epic research

The Sunday Salon with Alice-Azania Jarvis

I first interviewed Kelleigh back in February 2020 - and then the pandemic hit in earnest. We weren’t sure what to do: whether to ignore the fact that half of her answers now felt out of date, or to do it all again. I’m so glad we went for the latter, I wanted to hear how the pandemic experience had affected her life and her writing style. As a US national, she has spent the year miles away from her family. Of course, that’s not all we talk about - she also tells me about the incredibly level of research that went into Swan Song, which imagines the fall-out among Truman Capote’s group of female friends when his ‘expose’ of their private lives is published in Esquire, the differences between writing for page and for screen, and how she tackled the writers block that almost scuppered the book. I loved revisiting our conversation and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

By the book here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/swan-song/kelleigh-greenberg-jephcott/9781786090188
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Edited by Chelsey Moore