As her new book Ghost Lover is published, the American author discusses her quest to understand desire, the death of her father, and the spectral, haunted quality of modern life
was a work of devastating brilliance, flooring readers with its illuminating investigation of female desire.mmersing herself in the stories of her three subjects,
“I don’t think that you can categorise desire as good or bad. Our desires come from the things that have happened to us” – Lisa Taddeo After people die, I think there’s going to be more cataloguing of their life, which is something I desperately wanted when my parents were gone. I didn’t have an online history of them or anything that I could look at, and I think there’s going to be good that comes from tech being sophisticated in that way. But it does in fact contrive to make us lonelier by connecting us so much that any sense of disconnection feels horrific because of how much we are connected all the time.
ED: So much of your writing is about desire. Given that our desires are so much the product of a patriarchal culture, the romantic narratives we all consume and so much of what turns us on are arguably detrimental or problematic. Do you feel there's such a thing as good and bad desire?I don’t think that you can categorise desire as good or bad. Our desires come from the things that have happened to us, the things that haven’t happened to us, that we want to happen, all of that stuff.
ED: I love the way these stories induct us into people’s inner psyches and allow us to hear the terrible things that we are all, at some point, guilty of. Did you ever pull back and think, ‘No, that’s too awful’? I talk a lot about problems with weight and problems with acne and problems with beauty because we were flung into this world where certain things are valued above other things, where we have to care about this if we want to get that. And then, concurrently, we’re also excoriated for caring about the things that people have taught us to care about.
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