Writer/Author
Nora Zelevansky is the author of novels Competitive Grieving, Will You Won't You Want Me? and Semi-Charmed Life, and co-author of Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, ELLE, Town & Country, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal and Vanity Fair, among others. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two kids and enormous cat, Waldo.
In this interview, Nora and I discuss Competitive Grieving, her own experience with competitive grieving, how writing the book was cathartic, the format for the book, how the beauty of writing a novel is being able to create an entirely …