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the country who works a job where they can’t be. So, if I’m able to talk about it then I’ll just take it on the chin. I’ll do it because I have the privilege to do it.
RS: Do you think your book could help compa- nies and small businesses get a handle on their finances as well?
GD: It would be cool if companies read it, and started a dialogue where they could listen to their employees about what their actual lives are like, instead of it being like here we bought you a ping pong table. You know, small communication things that instead of assuming everyone wants their workplace to be a party atmosphere, which I think is a problem in a lot of startups. Solving problems that don’t exist.
RS: What’s harder to write, fiction or nonfic- tion?
GD: Nonfiction is harder, by far. Fiction I could make stuff up all day. In fiction you can just go ‘I want it to be this way and now it is’ in nonfiction we double checked, triple checked, fact checked, this that, it really happened but how do I present it in a way that’s interesting, and then cutting out facts, is this important, is this actually important.
RS: You’ve tried your hand at a lot of differ- ent things, do you think it’s important to have many different areas to focus on in your life? GD: Yeah, mostly because you never know what is going to generate income. I always try to think of things becoming other things. I want to have a hand in every space, I want to make it an em- pire. I feel like a lot of people get stuck thinking, ‘I’m just an actor and I’m waiting for a part,’ or ‘I’m just a writer and waiting for someone to pick up my show.’ Especially coming from YouTube, when people say “you’re a youtuber” not really. You’re a writer, actor, producer, director, you’re doing everything for the channel. So, the idea that one person being all things is pretty common I think. I’m always trying to sort of have a bunch of different things going on because I know how easy something can fail. I have to have 45 things going on, so if something fails, who cares!
NEW RELEASES
NORMAL PEOPLE
Sally Rooney’s latest follows
the story of teenage friends from different lots in life. Connell is the popular kid who comes from a poor family, while Marianne is well off and isolated from her peers. All
that changes in college, and Marianne suddenly finds herself dealing with a popularity she’s never experienced before, and Connell is regulated to the sidelines. It’s left up to Connell to decide how far he is willing to go in order to stop his friend from losing her way.
MACHINES LIKE ME
Ian McEwan’s novel is set in
an alternate version of 1980s London, and follows the story of Charlie, and the woman he
is in love with, Miranda. With the help of a robotic human he’s spent his inheritance on, Charlie begins to court his neighbour and bring his dreams to life. Unfortunately, the robot starts to develop emotions of its’ own, and an unexpected love triangle begins to form.
THE STRAWBERRY THIEF
Joanne Harris has written three novels so far in the Chocolat series, and The Strawberry Thief will be the fourth. It continues the story of Vianne Rocher, who finds herself embroiled
in controversy in the town of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes once again after a local florist dies and leaves her daughter a parcel of land. To make matters worse, a competitor opens a store across the square from hers, and things only go downhill from there.
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