Check In: Curtis Sittenfeld

Heavyweight

Pushkin Industries

Relationships, Personal Journals, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.9 • 18.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan speaks with Curtis Sittenfeld about her novel Rodham, which deals with many of the themes we explore on Heavyweight: things like returning to the past to change it, and the question of what our lives might have been like if we’d made one decision differently. Rodham is a novel about what Hillary Clinton’s life and political career might have looked like if she had never married Bill Clinton.

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0:00.0	Hi.
0:01.0	Hi.
0:02.0	How are you?
0:03.0	I'm good.
0:04.0	How are you?
0:05.0	Good.
0:06.0	Thank you for doing me.
0:07.0	The Chipper Exchange you're now hearing is between me and Curtis Hidden Feld, best-selling
0:10.3	novelist and author of books like Prep, American Wife, and you think it, I'll say it.
0:16.4	Nice to see you.
0:17.4	Nice to see you.
0:18.8	Although Curtis and I live in the same city, I'm seeing her over a Zoom call.
0:23.1	We sometimes ask guests on the show to talk to us from a small closet where the sound
0:26.9	quality is best, but that isn't the case today.
0:30.6	Curtis and Feld is seated at her desk, her writer's desk.
0:34.8	When I heard that we were going to put Curtis and Feld in a closet, I was like nobody
0:39.4	puts, that would be a shame to all podcasting everywhere.
0:46.8	Curtis and I are going to talk about her latest novel, Rotem, right after the break.
0:57.4	I'm speaking with Curtis and Feld about her novel, Rotem, which deals with many of the
1:03.0	themes that we explore on heavyweight, things like returning to the past to change it, and
1:07.7	the question of what our lives might have been like if we'd made one decision differently.
1:12.7	Rotem is a novel about what Hillary Clinton's life and political career might have looked
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