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Some books have titles that jump right out at you.

Lives of the wives, a new book by Carmella Chorraru, is definitely one of those books.

And upon closer inspection, I noticed that one of the wives Chorraru writes about is Elaine Dundee.

The wife of British theater critic and writer Kenneth Tynett, one of the main characters in my upcoming propaganda and art mini-series that I'm going to be dropping later this summer.

Like Elaine, all five of the wives and lives of the wives are more than mere wives, but yet all five were reduced to playing the part of the wife because their partners were, well, writers.

I met up with Carmella Chorraru to talk about her book and the hazards of literary relationships.

And to learn more about her five wives, Elaine Dundee, Jane Howard, Elsa Marante, Patricia Niel, and Una Trubridge.

It's really interesting that you begin the book with a story of a lesbian couple, and even though it's from an earlier era, some of the problems, like the issue of a younger woman who shows up on this scene,

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