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I've been a longtime fan of your horosp, so this is really a Comstock-Gay: I'm really happy to be here talkg wh you Enni: Yay! Claire Comstock-Gay: Oh, I love . And then we moved to New Hampshire, which is where I kd of thk of myself as beg Enni: That is a cent amount of movg Comstock-Gay: Yeah, is.
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And kd of related to that, I want to ask about how readg and wrg was a part of growg up for Comstock-Gay: Oh yeah. Claire Comstock-Gay: You know, really was not, even a ltle b. Claire Comstock-Gay: Yeah, you know, 's funny, I was really to keepg a journal as a kid.
I didn't want to be looked Enni: Well, teenage poetry is the epic, I thk nnects all of Comstock-Gay: [Lghs] And so I never, like llege I studied Rsian Lerature, but I never took a creative wrg class, even though I was kd of startg to secretly wre fictn at that pot. Claire Comstock-Gay: It was poetry and fictn. I had a secret poetry live journal for a long time [lghg] Enni: Ooh, Comstock-Gay: And so I wasn't ever dog wh the thought that I would maybe even ever Enni: I'm so terted that bee, what's clear to me om readg your horosp onle and then om readg this book, is that you're a really gifted wrer.
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Claire Comstock-Gay: I thk was partly not fdg the right form. Or, I don't know, like nyg the creative urge some way, shape, or Comstock-Gay: I thk was partly fear and weirdly, like a twisted up kd of way, partly rebellns.
Claire Comstock-Gay: Yeah, so astrology kd of me around for me when I was my early twenti.
" I wonr if you n jt expla that Comstock-Gay: Yeah, totally. I don't thk we were raised wh a lot of msag of acceptg Comstock-Gay: Yeah, I really agree.
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I want to kd of shift to talkg about how you started wrg Comstock-Gay: It really kd of was jt me gettg tremendoly lucky and fallg to this. It wh baked stcture and also a really hard and fast Comstock-Gay: Y.
" And kd of ma me thk about havg to wre somethg every week is a great way to sort of lose some of that precns that might prevent you om wrg or publishg Comstock-Gay: Totally. I mean, I would argue, I gus that this kd of uld be seen as takg the place of Comstock-Gay: Enni: Even though 's not explicly wrg about your life, 's fely a reflectn of your worldview and exprsg your terpretatn of humany. And that's a great way to journal general, I would Comstock-Gay: Enni: I want to ask about that learng on the job.
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Claire Comstock-Gay: So was really jt a lot of readg whatever I uld fd. But yeah, approachg om a narrative way is so different and unrreprented, like you're Comstock-Gay: Yeah, yeah. And also jt your nceptn of an dience, or how you thk about your wrg, all that good Comstock-Gay: Kd of where to start wh the qutn of dience.
It really is all about figurg out ways to nnect and to offer this gift to Enni: And your name, of urse, is obvly on the book and on The Cut, and everywhere that people read your horosp, but you are Madame Comstock-Gay: [Chuckl] Enni: So you did kd of totally move towards elimatg your inty wh relatnship to your wrg this tertg Comstock-Gay: Yeah, and has been funny to have my name kd of slowly, my real name, slowly creep . Claire Comstock-Gay: Yeah. "Claire Comstock-Gay: It's so horrible.
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Claire Comstock-Gay has wrten horosp unr the name “Madame Clairevoyant” sce 2012—first for The Rump, then The Toast, and sce 2016, for New York magaze’s The Cut. She has also wrten for the New York Tim and has been featured on NPR’s On Pot and Bch Magaze’s Popaganda podst. She liv Mne * claire comstock gay *
Claire Comstock-Gay: Yeah, totally. That's so smart of The Comstock-Gay: I love The Cut.
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Claire Comstock-Gay: I thk the begng I was jt a ltle b more fearful sudnly. Claire Comstock-Gay: Yeah, really broadly, was jt wantg to live somewhere else aga. And I'm jt wonrg how you thk about Comstock-Gay: I really feel like is a gift for me to be able to nnect wh people that way.
But yeah, people really do latch onto horosp a unique Comstock-Gay: I once was dog an terview, and the person was really kd of prsg me like, "How would you feel if someone broke up wh their partner e of your horosp? Claire Comstock-Gay: Yeah, I mean I thk really is about people, right? Your example was like stead of lookg at a star chart about Caprirn or somethg, you were thkg about Caprirns your life and thkg about where they were their journeys and what nnected them as far as what they might need to hear at that Comstock-Gay: I feel like that was kd of as I was still learng really how to do horosp.
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Claire Comstock-Gay: Well, so really the hugt change has been, once I got my book al, I was able to qu my job, kd of wh that pl The Cut. As long as the wrg's gettg Comstock-Gay: It is, as long as 's gettg done.
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I'd love to hear about how the book al me Comstock-Gay: So was somethg I'd been thkg about for a ltle while before I really tried to wre a proposal.
Claire Comstock-Gay: So some of was jt chattg on the phone about what I wanted to do, what was really important to me. " So 's like this way that you n have nversatns whout beg too vulnerable or beg too Comstock-Gay: I jt read that book by the way, and totally wished that I had read before dog all of my stuff.
"Claire Comstock-Gay: Serly [both lghg] Enni: I really love that kd of thought procs of brgg the, I mean, I fely read my chapters, Gemi Sun and Ts Moon and Sagtari Risg. That mt have been so gratifyg for you to see that Comstock-Gay: It was. Claire Comstock-Gay: I do.