Aggie Blum Thompson: Why It's So Much Easier to Write Good Fiction About Violence Than About Sex

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Aggie Blum Thompson: Why It's So Much Easier to Write Good Fiction About Violence Than About Sex

Andrew Keen

Aug 01, 2022

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Aggie Blum Thompson, author of All the Dirty Secrets.

Before turning to fiction, Aggie Blum Thompson covered real-life crime as a newspaper reporter for a number of papers, including The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. She lives with her husband and two children, a cat, and a dog in the suburbs of Washington D.C. She is the author of I Don’t Forgive You and All the Dirty Secrets.

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