Angela Flournoy's "The Wilderness"
Kate Wolf and Eric Newman speak with Angela Flournoy about her novel, "The Wilderness."
By LARB Radio HourNovember 7, 2025
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Kate Wolf and Eric Newman speak with Angela Flournoy about her novel, The Wilderness. Moving back and forth from the early 2000s to the present, the novel looks at the stories of five women living in New York and Los Angeles, capturing the mess and power of their deep, complicated friendships as they navigate love, motherhood, careers, and everything in between. Angela discusses how she developed these characters, how she works with scenes and dialogue, and why she wanted to write about Black female friendship.
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