![]() She depicts what it feels like to exist, actually live, at that intersection, which can so often bring about paralysis. ![]() 'Miranda Popkey's debut explores the paradox of longing to assert control and longing to lose it. She's a fresh voice, and one that it's certainly worth listening to.' Vogue ![]() 'If you're a fan of Sally Rooney's work, then you can't go wrong by picking up a copy of Topics Of Conversation. Popkey writes about these emotional eddies with such thrilling detachment you'll wonder why you ever worried about love at all.' Jenny Offill, author of Dept. 'A pleasingly unsentimental novel about attraction and repulsion and the fluid line between the two. Sizzling with enigmatic desire, Miranda Popkey's debut novel is a seductive exploration of life as a woman in the modern world, of the stories we tell ourselves and of the things we reveal only to strangers. MIRANDA POPKEY was born in Santa Cruz, California in 1987. Sizzling with enigmatic desire, Miranda Popkeys debut novel is a seductive exploration of life as a woman in the modern world, of the stories we tell ourselves. The novel unfurls through a series of conversations - in private with friends, late at night at parties with acquaintances, with strangers in hotel rooms, in moments of revelation, shame, cynicism, envy and intimacy. ![]() Follow Miranda Popkey on Twitter End Zone The Super Bowl Stinks by Miranda Popkey This season has been the first in a long time during which I’ve watched games consistently, week after week. She blogs about her love for Brett Favre (and occasionally other things) here. Miranda Popkey was born in Santa Cruz, California in 1987. What is the shape of a life? Is it the things that happen to us? Or is it the stories we tell about the things that happen to us?įrom the coast of the Adriatic to the salt spray of Santa Barbara, the narrator of Topics of Conversation maps out her life through two decades of bad relationships, motherhood, crisis and consolation. Miranda Popkey is on the editorial staff of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ![]()
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