![]() ![]() Raised in Indiana and a self-declared “eternal Midwesterner currently moonlighting as a New Yorker,” she wrote about returning home for quarantine, her anxieties around looking after her family and ensuring their health as best she can, and the ways in which our never-ending news cycle and ability to nonstop consume information can be overwhelming but feel required. I’ll start in what’s actually the midpoint of our conversation when we discuss her “‘The Mighty Ducks‘ Movies Taught Me How to Survive a Pandemic’ essay for Catapult. But as the protagonist, Liz Lighty reflects in the book, “We succeed in spite of, or maybe even because of, the odds against us.” And it seems that the multiple rules of the Lighty way prove to be the Leah way too. At the time of our convo, it’s a week from the release of Leah’s debut novel You Should See Me in a Crown and like many authors at the moment, the experience has taken a detour. ![]() Although, it feels more like any other day than a “holiday.” In fact, maybe describing it as, “any other day” feels too generous given the overall ongoing list of circumstances that pile on to how our days are moving and the ways in which they make us exhausted. It’s Memorial Day when I talk to author (and “foremost Mighty Ducks personal essayist of our time”) Leah Johnson on the phone. ![]()
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