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Lorena Cassady:
“Like the unheard female voice of the Beat Generation”. The fifties and sixties,were not very good decades for women. Is your heroine expressing opinions and attitudes of her time, or yours?
Lorena Cassady
Lucie! Great question! Well, of course we write to gain perspective, no? My heroine was very young, the age of Lolita IN the age of Lolita, so no, she (and we both know who I am talking about) didn't have a perspective on what was happening to her. But she did feel uncomfortable and objectified around her beatnik buddies in a way that she hadn't when she had boyfriends her own age…who would grow up to be hippies many years later. The "beatnik boyfriend" still lives. He is still a beatnik, still an idio…. I mean, still limited in his ideas about women.
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Cathy Sylvia
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Hi Lorena, This is Cathy Cassady, eldest child of Neal Cassady and Carolyn Cassady. I volunteered at the fabulous writers' conference in San Miguel de Allende this year (2017). That was a transformative experience for me! Besides being a struggling writer myself, my dad died there, so it was significant on many levels. I have two queries: Have you attended that conference? Could we be related? Hope so! Thx.
Theresa
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Hi Lorena, What made you decide to write a style of memoir over fiction?
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