Glynnis is the author, most recently, of I’m Mostly Here To Enjoy Myself. She is also the author of No One Tells You This, and Becoming a Baker. She wrote, hosted, and produced WILDER: A Reckoning with the Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and has co-produced and story-edited the Under the Influence podcast, hosted by
.Glynnis has written for The Guardian, The Cut, Town & Country, and ELLE, among others. She has recently published essays at the New York Times including “Men Fear Me, Society Shames Me, and I Love My Life” and “I Love the Kids in My Life. I’m Raising None of Them.”
The Times called I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself “a memoir of hot sex, hot chocolate, and freedom.” The book follows Glynnis’s travels to Paris in 2021, after over a year without touch due to pandemic lockdown. The book insists that women’s pleasure and joy is worthy of literary exploration and representation, and counters the more dominant narrative that for women, midlife is a time of erotic death, invisibility, and irrelevance.
We chatted about touch, the masculine history of narrative and the limited tropes offered to women in literature, midlife, the recent explosion of writing on women’s desire and pleasure, and more.
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