Meryl Branch-McTiernan Takes Us Back to Lockdown

Podcast: Talking Writing · Martha Nichols, John Vogel, and Neva Talladen

Opublikowano: 2026-10-22

This week’s episode features author and screenwriter Meryl Branch-McTiernan talking with TW Creative Director John Vogel about her recent novel What You Should Worry About. The book takes us back to before the COVID lockdown, the old normal. And it brings back all the anxiety, isolation, fear, and judgment that was rampant in the first year of shelter-in-place. As protagonist Layla Moody hops around Sundance in February 2020, she connects with Diana Winn, a director who offers a meeting in New York for Layla to pitch a script. After the festival, she flies from her adopted home of...