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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Kat Meads, By Lidia Yuknavitch

29 Jan 2013|

Editor’s Note: When I asked Rumpus fave, Lidia Yuknavitch, to interview the quiet-yet-provocative force that is Kat Meads, I knew something interesting would result. Meads, long drawn to the overlap between history and fiction and to exploring the private side of political movements, has recently released a slyly intelligent, subversive novel, For You, Madam Lenin, focusing on Vladimir Lenin’s wife, Nadya Krupskaya, as well as other women drawn in to his turbulent orbit, including his mother-in-law and lover, and claiming their humanity and womanhood.  Here, these two unabashed feminist writers let loose on the “Fifty Shades of Shite” state of the publishing world, and what moves them to keep turning over the dirt.  —Gina Frangello