296: Fairy Tales, Vernacular, and the Art of Storytelling — Interview with Curdella Forbes

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hey there word nerds!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Curdella Forbes.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Curdella is a Jamaican writer who lives in Takoma Park, Maryland, and teaches at Howard University. Her latest novel,</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">A Tall History of Sugar</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, has been praised by BuzzFeed, Essence, Bookish, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, SyFy, and many others. Writing for the New York Times Book Review, Veronica Chambers said of the novel: "Forbes’s writing combines the gale-force imagination of Margaret Atwood with the lyrical pointillism of Toni Morrison.”</span></p> <h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode Curdella and I discuss:</span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The inspiration behind</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Tall History of Sugar</span></em></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Writing about the experience of not belonging</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Moving between third and first person</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The dark origins of fairy tales</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The story behind the title “A Tall History of Sugar”</span></li> </ul> <h4><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Plus, her #1 tip for writers.</span></em></h4> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For more info and show notes: <a href="https://diymfa.com/podcast/episode-296-curdella-forbes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.diymfa.com/296</a></span></p>