October, 2022 - Lauren Beukes

October 27, 2022

The Shining Girls, Violence In Media And Talking Book To Screen Process With NPR

Throwback to when NPR interviewed me in 2013 for The Shining Girls. We talk writing and researching, the violence depictions in the book (read the related post All The Pretty Corpses on violence in pop culture), optioning the adaptation for TV and I read an excerpt from The Shining Girls. A snippet from the interview: [...]

October 19, 2022

Talking Parenting Across The Multiverse On The Living While Feminist Podcast

I get personal with the wonderful Jen Thorpe on her podcast Living While Feminist. We talk about all things parenting, the Apple TV adaptation of The Shining Girls, Afterland, my new upcoming novel Bridge and so much more. Here's a quote from the interview about my upcoming book Bridge, which I am super excited to unleash [...]

October 12, 2022

Revisiting The Guardian’s ‘Authors On Their Scariest Creations’ For The Spookiest Season

Alison Flood at The Guardian put together a very cool collection of thoughts from authors on their most spine-chilling creations. Such an honour to be featured alongside some horror writing legends. Billie from Afterland is a very particular kind of scary - the kind of scary that is actually out there in the real world [...]

October 5, 2022

Signing Books And Talking Growing Up Geeky At Barcelona’s Gigamesh

Science-fiction, fantasy, genre and high concept [books] are a way of exploring reality and [...] hectic social issues in a way that's like a distorting mirror. You look through the mirror and it allows you to see things more clearly [...] It's a way of exploring very real social issues but with a very light [...]