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have repeatedly opposed the grizzly introduction.

INTERVIEWERI wish Id had a glamorous teacher! My ballet teacher was very plain and just incredibly unforgiving.perhaps thats easier for many writers since discipline is required and we love having complete control.

But ballet will likely always be tied up in our culture with ideas about femininity—both potentially confining ones.These mysterious and private rituals of young women—these dark fairy tales—are at the heart of Abbotts work.Can you talk about the language? It feels like a subversive choice to avoid being lyrical or adoring about the female body.

I remember our teacher assuring us the light would hit the netting inside and it would look very dramatic! But I was also just old enough to sense a slightly queasy feeling among a few parents.Or do you mean the one has turned into the other in the way that everything gets watered down? Last years evasive.

noting that how a dancer prepared her pointe shoes was a ritual as mysterious and private as how she might pleasure herself.

It can be dangerous—as in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie—but I suppose it can save someones life.INTERVIEWERYou certainly deserve credit for really taking risks early on in your career and paving the way for other authors to explore the violence in the all-American girl.

Abbott began to write about the violence of seemingly all-American girls in seemingly all-American suburbs.Or do you mean the one has turned into the other in the way that everything gets watered down? Last years evasive.

I guess its because theres such a richness to the voice of someone who is experiencing everything for the first time.Id been very affected by the response to the wildly popular Dirty John podcast and the ensuing TV series.