{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Premise","title":"Robinne Lee - Author of \"Crash Into Me\" Live at Warwicks Books","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3659,"description":"The Art of Writing Crash Into Me\n\nIn this episode, we sit down with the author of Crash Into Me for an intimate conversation about writing, beauty, identity, aging, relationships, and the creative life.\nCrash Into Me follows Cecilia Chen, a Jamaican Chinese photographer who has spent 20 years living in Paris before moving with her French filmmaker husband and their children to Los Angeles. Her new life is upended when a car accident brings her face-to-face with a woman from her past—and forces old memories and unresolved feelings back into the present.\nThe conversation begins with a reading from the novel and then explores the inspiration behind the story, including the author's own experience in a frightening car accident that ultimately became the foundation for the book's opening.\nIn This Episode\n\nThe real-life accident that inspired the novel\nThe author explains how a 2016 car accident became the seed for Crash Into Me. She was struck by another driver, her car collided with another vehicle, and three strangers ended up comforting one another after the accident. She later realized the incident was an ideal metaphor for the unexpected intersections between people's lives.\nBeauty as a commodity\nAt the center of Cecilia's artistic work is an installation exploring women's ideas about beauty, aging, and the ways society consumes and evaluates women's bodies. The conversation examines what happens when someone who has been valued for her beauty begins to experience the world responding to her differently.\nAging in the public eye\nThe discussion takes a particularly personal turn as the author talks about aging as an actor and the strange experience of having strangers feel entitled to comment on a public figure's appearance. The conversation considers the difference between simply growing older and growing older while being watched.\nRepresentation matters\nCecilia's Jamaican Chinese identity was an intentional choice. The author talks about growing up without seeing...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/nj4fk5WnTrxbJiBHxxgBejYoW3Lo0-RQxX8S5sNajMA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83NmE4/ODc3NDcwNmY5NWZl/ZWYyYjZiZmU4MGFj/YmI4NC53ZWJw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}