Corie Adjmi, author of 'The Marriage Box' - Award-winning writer discusses writing by hand, short stories, and should you always write what you know?
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
4.9 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Corie Adjmi's debut novel, 'Life and Other Shortcomings' won a whole bunch of prizes, and has steamrollered her towards the new novel, 'The Marriage Box'.
It's all about Casey Cohen, a 16 year old in New Orleans, and in the 70s, her parents decide to return to their roots and move to the orthodox Syrian jewish community in Brooklyn. In time, Casey meets Michael and marries him at 18 thinking she can adjust to his Syrian ways, but starts to question things when Michael says he doesn’t want her to go to college… but have a baby instead.
The novel is based on a lot of Corie's own experience in that community. She started writing in her 30s, and had 5 children by the time she was 35. We talk about why she started writing short stories in the small snatches of time she could make her own.
You can hear why she starts her day early amongst the bustle of Manhattan, also why she begins by writing by hand, and why she's designing her writing space towards creativity.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome along to a brand new episode of writers' routine this week we're chatting to Corey Ajmi. |
| 0:14.2 | Her new novel is The Marriage Box, based on her life growing up in the Syrian Jewish community over in Brooklyn. |
| 0:22.1 | We talk about why she starts writing by hand. Also, how much life influences storytelling. Is it always right what you know? |
| 0:30.6 | And you can hear when she's at her most creative. For me, it's first thing in the morning with that |
| 0:35.7 | cup of coffee. That's when I'd say those first two hours, the earlier the better. |
| 0:41.1 | I'm really hard to drop. |
| 0:42.3 | I'm really focused. |
| 0:44.2 | Probably not going to be interrupted. |
| 0:47.1 | That's definitely my best writing time. |
| 0:49.5 | There is more about the day and lots more in a brand new writer's routine with Corey Adjmi. |
| 0:59.7 | Music about the day and lots more in a brand new writer's routine with Corey Adjmi. Yes, welcome along to the show. My name's Dan Simpson. This is writer's routine. Very simple. |
| 1:05.2 | That's what it says on the tin. Hopefully we take a look through an author's working day to see how |
| 1:09.1 | they plan their day, their life, their space to give them the best chance of getting their idea down onto the page. Now, are you a visual |
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