![]() ![]() Maris Kreizman: I love that the husband in “Los Angeles” speaks like a Peanuts character but just with dollar signs. Of course, “Los Angeles” ends with a chase, and “Oranges” begins with a following. So I wrote “Oranges” knowing that it was going to be part of a story pairing with “Los Angeles.” I wanted to explore a similar topic but with two different approaches. And it occurred to me eight years later, I wrote many of these stories during the pandemic, to try to tackle the topic again but from a perspective that’s more rooted in realism. “Los Angeles” was published in Granta in 2015, so it’s one of the older stories in the collection. That was my attempt at writing straight up realism. In the other one, it’s more of a realist take on domestic abuse. Each week, top authors and critics join the Book Review Podcast to talk about the latest news in the literary world. It has a very fantastical premise involving this woman who lives in this very nice and beautiful home with her 100 ex-boyfriends, and her new husband bankrolls the whole endeavor. Ling Ma’s own Bliss Montage is a surreal subversion of this trope. One is more of a fantastical take on that subject. Ling Ma: Both stories, “Los Angeles” and “Oranges” deal with domestic abuse. Maris Kreizman: Tell me about writing two different incarnations of. On using fantasy to address domestic abuse: ![]()
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