In This Article
- The Architecture of a 30th Novel
- Contextualising the Release
- Future Appearances and Reader Engagement
Jodi Picoult announces her 30th novel Hollow Bones will launch alongside a digital legacy mosaic of reader testimonials celebrating her career.
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Author Jodi Picoult speaks at the Oxford Union about addressing racism, privilege, and the creative process behind her novels.
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Picoult explains that the premise of Small Great Things was sparked by a 2012 news story about a veteran Black nurse in Flint, Michigan, who was barred from caring for a baby after the father displayed a swastika tattoo and demanded no African American personnel touch his child.
Picoult describes getting into the mindset of the racist character Turk as deeply unsettling, admitting she often felt compelled to shower immediately after writing his scenes.
Picoult learned from former neo-Nazis she interviewed that white supremacists have largely abandoned the skinhead aesthetic in favor of blending into ordinary society and recruiting through social media.
Picoult asserts that white allies should not presume to instruct marginalized communities, but instead use the societal platform and media attention they are granted to amplify the voices of people of color.
Picoult recounts a formative creative writing class where author Mary Morris tossed her manuscript's opening pages away and forced her to sit on the floor silently cutting and pasting the text.
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