#587 Victoria Dougherty: Nihilism, Horror, Depression, Love, and Writing
RECORDED ON OCTOBER 28th 2021.
Victoria Dougherty is the author of The Bone Church, Welcome to the Hotel Yalta, and Cold. She writes fiction, drama, and essays that revolve around lovers, killers, curses, and destinies. Her work has been published or profiled in the New York Times, USA Today, The International Herald Tribune, and elsewhere. Earlier in her career, while living in Prague, she co-founded Black Box Theater, translating, producing, and acting in several Czech plays. Her blog – COLD – features her short essays on faith, family, love, and writing. WordPress, the blogging platform that hosts some 70 million blogs worldwide, has singled out COLD as one of the Top 50 Recommended Blogs by writers or about writing.
This is our third talk, and the most philosophical one to date.
In this episode, we talk about Fernando Pessoa, nihilism; if fictional writing is honest and truthful; how writing fiction can help you understand different people and their personalities; the horror genre, Ingmar Bergman, and the fear of estrangement; what it’s like living with depression; the importance of romantic relationships; Victoria’s influences in her writing; the limitations of writing in comparison to other arts; how comic books can be so great; and how we always get boring parts in stories; and why I only write when I’m in love.
Time Links:
Intro
Fernando Pessoa, and nihilism
Is writing true, or deceiving?
Learning about people with different personalities
The horror genre, Ingmar Bergman, and the fear of estrangement
Depression, anxiety, and relationships
Romantic relationships in modern society
Where Victoria draws her influences from when writing
The limitations of writing, and comic books and anime
When writing is boring
Writing when in love
Follow Victoria’s work:
Our first interview: https://youtu.be/T6gTK0dZcQc
Our second interview: https://youtu.be/NHCGW3_Opc0
Website: http://bit.ly/2HoiQ0f
COLD (blog): http://bit.ly/2ZnyeUU
YouTube channel/vlog: http://bit.ly/2HkHoYc
Books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2PrstSz
Twitter handle: @vicdougherty
Support Victoria on Patreon! : http://bit.ly/31VXqj1