Welcome back Bookends to our latest instalment in our Debut Spotlight series! This week we were joined by writer Nicole Flattery to chat about her upcoming novel 'Nothing Special', we loved chatting to Nicole about how she didn't fully kick off her writing career until her late twenties and how odd it is that we view women's success against a timeline. Aswell as deep diving into her brilliant book, we discussed the moral ambiguity of Andy Warhol, how reading plays can transform the way you view dialogue, mother/daughter dynamics and much more. Nothing Special will be published on the 2nd of March by Bloomsbury. We hope you enjoy the episode!

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To buy Nicole's book: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/nothing-special-nicole-flattery/7111402?ean=9781526612120

Follow Nicole: https://www.instagram.com/flattern16/?hl=en

Books & Authors discussed in the episode:
Lynne Tillman
All the lovers in the night by Mieko Kawakami
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Lonely City by Olivia Laing
The Copenhagen trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
Gwendoline Riley
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
Close to home by Michael Magee
I am homeless if this is not my home: A novel by Lorrie Moore
Who will run the frog hospital? by Lorrie Moore
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
Send Nudes by Saba Sams

Other culture recs:
Dopesick (Disney +)
The Lost Daughter (Netflix)
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons by Sam Steiner (play)
Bad Gays Podcast, Andy Warhol episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/special-episode-andy-warhol-with-sholem-krishtalka/id1455620224?i=1000442525395
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0wG9NjCC8Mr6NNzslgpQyO