Torrey Peters
Torrey Peters is a writer who splits her time between Brooklyn, New York, and rural Vermont. Her first novel,
Detransition, Baby, was published by One World in January. Peters is also the author of the novellas
The Masker and
I DEDICATED MY FIRST NOVEL,
Detransition, Baby, to divorced cis women. While working on the book, I found a model for how to live as a trans woman in the writings of divorced cis women. Think about it: Divorced cis women must start over at a point in adulthood when they’re supposed to be established; they must give up on the illusions that led to failure; they must avoid bitterness and self-pity; and they frequently even change their names to match the new self they must narrativize into being. It’s easy to look at the current place of trans women in society and think that we’re witnessing a moment of something liberating. But for me that same liberation was daunting I wanted a map. In works by and about divorced cis women, I eventual
Books Rohit Warrier, Founder and Director, Warrier Safe Shields loves to read biographies of successful people. I find them inspiring. There is loads to learn from their journeys and their learning as they forged ahead in life. Recent books that I read fall in this category too. Steve Jobs – By Walter Issacson, Elon Musk- Tesla, Space-x and the quest for a fantastic future – by Ashlee Vance, On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist – by Clarissa Ward, he told ET Panache.
From Steve Jobs, Warrier learnt something that Steve Jobs claims to have learnt from his father (Paul Jobs) and he seems to have carried it through in all his inventions may it be MacBook, iPod or iPhone – Not just the outside but the inside too needs to be equally beautiful.
In the 1880 British elections, William Scott, the Earl of Dalkeith, was in for a nasty surprise when the pamphlet ‘Political Achievements of the Earl of Dalkeith’ was circulated in Scotland. On opening it, a prospective voter would find 32 blank pages. Almost a century-and-a-half later, the joke still hasn’t got old.
Matteo Salvini of the right-wing Italian party Northern League was a recent victim of this ‘novel’ prank, when a 110-empty-pager titled, Why Salvini Deserves Trust, Respect and Admiration, written by ‘Alex Green’, the pseudonym of a ‘political analyst’, began climbing the bestseller list this month.
‘Years of research’ apparently went into its writing, which many readers found ‘lengthy, difficult, yet fulfilling’ to read. So, yet another masterpiece in blank prose.