Elizabeth Hand | FIRST WORD ON HORROR Part 3

Описание: Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand returns for Part 3 of her FIRST WORD ON HORROR conversation — now streaming on YouTube.

This chapter reckons with endings and endurance. Elizabeth reflects on growing up with the apocalypse embedded in her imagination, and how writing about collapse feels different when it no longer feels hypothetical. What once carried a kind of nihilistic thrill now presses uncomfortably close to lived reality.

She speaks candidly about survival as an artist — raising kids, living lean, saying yes to any work that paid — and what it means to keep making strange, personal work without romanticizing the struggle. The conversation turns to craft as well: resisting plot, favoring atmosphere and accumulation, and telling stories that hold experience rather than resolve it.

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