Jillian Medoff is the author of four acclaimed novels: This Could Hurt, I Couldn't Love You More, Good Girls Gone Bad, and Hunger Point. Hunger Point was made into an original cable movie starring Christina Hendricks and Barbara Hershey and directed by Joan Micklin Silver (Lifetime TV, 2003).Medoff's new novel is When We Were Bright and Beautiful.
Recently I asked the author about what she was reading. Her reply:
I’m a voracious reader, and always carry at least one book wherever I go. Recently, I recently went on a non-fiction binge and read three books in a row: Dopesick (Beth Macy) about the opioid epidemic, Bad Blood (John Carreyrou)Visit Jillian Medoff's website.about Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scandal, and The Premonition (Michael Lewis) about the COVID-19 pandemic.
I love non-fiction books that read like novels, and all three of these were terrific. To be honest, though, I wasn't reading these particular books for pleasure; I was studying them to see how they worked. In each case, the author had to deal with a vast amount of material: years of their own research, public information, media reports and scientific data. Plus, they all delved into the inner lives and mindsets of the people at the heart of each story. The books were compulsively readable, but I also learned so muchabout each subject. My next novel is about medical ethics, and I want it to read as seamlessly as these do. Of course, these three authors are giants, but I figured I may as well learn from the best!
My Book, The Movie: This Could Hurt.
The Page 69 Test: When We Were Bright and Beautiful.
--Marshal Zeringue
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