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THE LATEST INTERVIEW from the LARB studios features Christopher Noxon, the talented journalist and author of the new book Plus One, in an interview with LARB's Michele Botwin Raphael. Plus One tells a story based both loosely and tenaciously on Noxon's own life and relationship with his successful TV writer wife, Jenji Kohan. Though trying to pick apart what's real and what's fake in the book is half the fun, Noxon is mostly up front about the differences and says that above all he set out to write a book that would portray with sheer honesty the funny, messy and bizarre lives of people living somewhere between Hollywood and the rest of the real world. Plus One also stands out as an important piece of work regarding gender politics, as Noxon writers candidly about living the role of a house-husband (he jokingly prefers the term "domestic first responder") and looks at the anxieties and other dilemmas that women in those roles have faced for generations.
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Michele Botwin Raphael (@MicheleBRaphael) is a writer and editor, specializing in digital media, entertainment, pop culture, books, arts and lifestyle topics. Recently named a National Press Foundation Fellow, she currently blogs for the Huffington Post. She previously held roles as a staff writer and "Cybertainment" columnist for Los Angeles Times, a features editor for latimes.com, a co-founding senior editor of the Online Journalism Review, a freelance writer for Billboard,Variety and other magazines, and a director of publications and special projects for the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center.
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