Q: hi karly…. i just read your piece for vulture and oh my gosh…. it was just beautiful. I just wanted to come on here and say thanks for writing the way you do and sharing with everyone. I live and die for North Carolina and it’s so wonderful to see the coolest people on the music scene come out of our state. Anyways I wanted to ask if you’ll be doing more memoir-like prose and if you have any pieces that shaped your writing style/inspired you for this one?

A: Hell yeah NC 4 Lyfeeeeee

Also yes…. I will be/am writing more… working on it:)

I have read soooooooooooo many books to prepare for my nonfiction writing stuff. The main influences rn are Mary Karr’s memoirs and her book about how to write one, Harry Crew’s A Childhood, Ashleigh Bryant Phillips essays Sleepovers, Joan Didion “Year of Magical Thinking” and like a million others but those are the ones that come to mind at the moment.