I haven’t been working in a concentrated way, and I’m very jealous of people who have been. I see [those subjects] coming up in my own work, over and over again.”In The Girls, Cline fictionalised the Manson family, focusing – as the title suggests – on the women, rather than the male cult leader. In Daddy, Cline turns her attention mainly to men. “It wasn’t a conscious thing [to write about men], but I think it’s a function of living in this society, you’re forced to imagine what’s going on in the minds of men,” she says. If there’s one thing I know about humans, it’s that they don’t follow logic“I think just living life as a woman, you get a pretty good sense [of how men think], unfortunately,” Cline says.

Source: The Guardian August 28, 2020 09:56 UTC