Abi Morgan: How to Write a Memoir About Personal Catastrophe Without Sounding Pitiful
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.
In this episode, Andrew is joined by Abi Morgan, author of This Is Not a Pity Memoir.
Abi Morgan is a playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include Skinned, Sleeping Around, Splendour (Paines Plough), Tiny Dynamite (Traverse), Tender (Hampstead Theatre), Fugee (National Theatre), 27 (National Theatre of Scotland), Love Song (Frantic Assembly), and The Mistress Contract (Royal Court Theatre). Her television work includes My Fragile Heart, Murder, Sex Traffic, Tsunami—The Aftermath, White Girl, Royal Wedding, Birdsong, The Hour, River and The Split. Her film writing credits include Brick Lane, Iron Lady, Shame, The Invisible Woman, and Suffragette. She has a number of films currently in development and has won a number of awards, including Baftas and an Emmy for her film and TV work.
Countress of Carnarvon on the Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun
Ahmed White: What the Early 20th Century War on Radical Workers Tells Us About the Struggle Between Labor and Capital in America Today
Allegra Goodman : What Happens When a Novelist "Overparents" Their Characters? How a Fictional Creation Can Fight Back Against Their Helicopter Author`
Aaron De Smet: Why, In Our Age of Permanent Volatility, We Need to Foster a Zen-Like "Deliberate Calm"
Daniel Akst: Why World War II's Greatest Generation Should Be Celebrated As Much For Its Heroic Pacifism As For Its Selfless Sacrifice in Battle
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Why All Writers, Especially Novelists, Are Political: Which Is Why Novels Can Change the World
Esther Woolfson: The Most Disturbing of All Human Sins? How We Live With Other Creatures
Chloe Sorvino: How the Multi-Trillion Dollar Industrial Meat Complex is Bad For Our Species and Our Planet
Michael Kimmelman: Why New York Should Be Savored on Foot Rather Than From an Automobile
David Marchick: What Do FDR, Trump, and Lincoln Have in Common? The Worst Transitions of Presidential Power in American History
Samantha Vérant: How to Live in France and Write Novels About Fine Food and Wine
Bob Blaisdell on When Chekhov Became Chekhov: How the Son of a Serf Became a Literary Genius
Lynne Twist: What Gandhi, Mandela, and Martin Luther King Can Teach Us About Living a Committed Life