Behind Enemy Lines: The Untold Stories of Italy’s Female Warriors Who Sabotaged the Nazis
HMM: We’re not talking about going back to the past, we’re talking about building a better future.
SC: Yes!
HMM: When you get to a point that you have something that can be read by someone else, who’s your first reader?
SC: Two great folks – Maria Luisa Tucker who has pivoted to working on really great podcasts lately, which is so great because it adds another layer of understanding narrative. In podcasts you have to describe in words what you’re seeing, and I think that really helps me do the same thing on paper. And Sarah DiGregorio, who would call herself a medical journalist. Both women tell these lesser-known stories of unsung heroes, and we share a political understanding, and a shared desire to amplify stories of people whose stories are not often told in the dominant narrative. They’re my first readers. And my husband. If I have a particularly sticky shorter piece, then I will ask him to read something and will ask, “What do you want to know?” He’s a musician so he does think about storytelling as well, and this is the kind of stuff he likes to read.
