Below, Granados reflects on her “exorcism”-like writing process, reads us some lines from her notebook, and explains why she always returns to the work of Frank O’Hara. As they attempt to translate wild nights out into sustainable Uptown social capital, the girls are forced to reckon with the fault lines in their relationship. By night, they run the streets of the Upper East Side, partying with celebrities, aristocrats, and all manner of eclectic characters. By day, the pair sell clothes and scrape by on bodega lunches in their tumbledown Bed-Stuy sublet. The story follows Isa and Gala, two twenty-something newcomers to the city. Today, she releases her debut novel, Happy Hour: a glitzy coming-of-age saga about two friends navigating the singular experience of getting by in New York City. In the same year, Granados debuted her short film The Leaving Party, which follows the conversations among a group of friends over the course of one summer day. In 2019, the writer, filmmaker, and podcaster launched The Mean Reds, a podcast that she co-hosts alongside Ivana Lovric, where the pair dig deep into a slew of women-led films such as Jennifer’s Body, Legally Blonde, and When Harry Met Sally. The past few years have been filled with firsts for Marlowe Granados. From preferred writing drinks to whether or not you really need to carry a notebook, we find out all the ways they beat writer’s block and get it done. This is Rough Draft, in which our favorite writers get to the bottom of their own craft.
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