“Y’all, this book almost killed me dead, but I did it,” she wrote.
She then added: “It’s a memoir, not fiction!”
(The book is currently in active development as a series at FX.)
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Now she’s shifting to her first nonfiction book, and second overall.
“It’s a really intense topic,” Machado tells EW.
“It was difficult emotionally.
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And it required me to stretch my comfort zone way past where I normally do.
I’m not a historian.
I’m not a traditionally trained journalist.
[It] took a lot out of me.
The book also took much longer than I thought it was going to.
So it felt like a space very rich for exploration.”
(“It’s just exhausting,” she admits.)
She barely worked on a schedule, writing “as things moved” her.
“I spent one week where I barely wrote a word except from taking notes.
I was just reading through papers and articles and all kinds of things.
There were just a lot of steps to it.”
The memoir publishes Oct. 1, and isavailable for pre-order.
