109 Women of Mystery (with Christina Kovac)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Arts, Books

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Author Christina Kovac (The Cutaway: A Thriller) joins Jacke for a discussion of crime fiction, writing a strong female protagonist, working in the local news business, and her “holy trinity” of female crime writers: Laura Lippmann, Tana French, and Megan Abbott. Learn more about the show at historyofliterature.com. Support the show at patreon.com/literature. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	I remember the little girl, I always want to treat about girls going on
0:16.2	adventures. I love for example the Greek medicine. I love Joseph Campbell
0:20.9	he wrote about a hero with a thousand faces and the journey of the hero,
0:26.0	and I wanted to go on a journey so bad, I wanted to be heroic.
0:30.0	And then I got to that point in his book where he talked about the fact that women can't go on journeys.
0:35.0	That they were the object of the journey.
0:38.0	They were the end of the journey for the hero.
0:40.0	And I thought, I don't like this anymore. So I went out and I found writers who wrote about
0:46.7	characters who went on journeys and adventures and committed crimes and they made me happier.
0:54.0	That's Christina Kovac, author of the new novel The Cutaway.
1:00.0	Christina joins us today to talk about her novel, her writing process, and her holy trinity
1:06.2	of female crime writers.
1:08.2	That's coming up on today's history of Literature. Literature. Hello I'm Jack Wilson and welcome to the podcast.
1:33.0	Man, another week, another hurricane.
1:36.6	Stay safe everyone.
1:38.2	Okay, this is a fun one today.
1:40.4	Christina Kovac, who spent years working as a television producer in Washington DC
1:46.1	the belly of the beast running around DuPont Circle and Georgetown and Capitol Hill chasing down stories, meeting cops and politicians
1:56.4	and lobbyists and lawyers.
1:59.4	And then what?
2:00.7	She writes a novel with a strong female character, a television producer who's very good at her job.
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