Write What You’re Afraid Of with Amy Chozick

About this episode

Amy Chozick discusses her novel and the struggle between personal identity and societal expectations.

Do you ever feel like you have to split yourself between who you really are and who society tells you to be? Amy Chozick’s thrilling, vulnerable novel, With Friends Like You , explores that feeling from the perspective of a new mother. A former journalist who profiled figures like Lorena Bobbitt, Stormy Daniels and Elizabeth Holmes, Amy knows that a messy woman can be hard for the public to swallow. Amy and Ashlyn talk about the multiple selves they confront every day and about the new parts of herself Amy confronted while writing her book. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Ashlyn Harris

Guest: Amy Chozick

Topics covered

• identity
• motherhood
• society
• self-perception
• writing

Keywords

• identity
• motherhood
• Amy Chozick
• writing
• society

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: With Friends Like You

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