Stephanie Danler | The Road to Stray
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Stephanie Danler is a novelist, memoirist, and screenwriter. She is the author of the international bestseller, Sweetbitter, and the creator and executive producer of the Sweetbitter TV series on Starz. The book and series were based on her own experience being swept up by the intoxication of the New York City restaurant scene in her twenties. Danler's work has appeared in the Sewanee Review, Vogue, The New York Times, and The Paris Review. Her new memoir, Stray, (https://amzn.to/361FOpf) is a powerful reflection on the relationships, addictions, moments of awakening, revelation, and connection that defined her earlier life and shaped the person, the partner, the mother, and the writer she would become.
You can find Stephanie Danler at:
Website : http://www.stephaniedanler.com/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/smdanler/
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:06.0 | Growing up in LA with parents who struggled with addiction, Stephanie Dianler, almost failed at a school, |
| 0:12.5 | but a teacher who really took notice and became her champion helped her find her way |
| 0:18.3 | and land a spot at Kenyon where a deep love of writing took root in her college years. |
| 0:25.5 | At the same time, she had also developed a passion for the energy and the pace of New York City, |
| 0:30.5 | which being a New Yorker, I completely understand. |
| 0:34.5 | So, heading there after graduating, Stephanie completely immersed herself in the sort of |
| 0:39.4 | intoxicating contact sport that is the city's restaurant scene. |
| 0:44.2 | And all the while, she was also taking notes that would eventually lead to and become her breakout |
| 0:50.0 | novel and a hit TV show called Sweet Bitter. And having since left that world and transitioned |
| 0:56.9 | into a career full-time as a writer, become married, moved back to LA, become a mom, |
| 1:03.5 | her new memoir, Stray, is this deeply evocative and moving reflection on her earlier years on |
| 1:10.4 | the role her parents and their addictions and later relationships played in shaping her life |
| 1:16.5 | and the place that she has landed today. We dive into all of this in today's really moving |
| 1:21.6 | and powerfully honest conversation. Cannot wait to share it with you. I'm Jonathan Fields, |
| 1:27.7 | and this is Good Life Project. |
| 1:37.9 | So, we left for Hawaii in early March and when we were leaving, |
| 1:44.0 | people were definitely talking about coronavirus, but no one had canceled vacations yet. |
| 1:52.5 | And I had never heard the word social distancing or shelter in place or quarantine. |
| 1:59.3 | And we had been there like four days and it was a Tuesday and someone wrote me that the NBA |
| 2:07.4 | was canceling their games. And I was like, huh? And I was like, I'm going to investigate this. |
| 2:13.7 | That seems really serious. NBA, you know, I've heard of it. And then it said, |
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