#83 - Dietland on AMC with Sarai Walker, author of the novel, Dietland

Dietland is a wickedly funny and extraordinarily timed
satire which premieres tonight, Monday 4 June at 9PM on AMC. It's
based on Sarai Walker’s 2015 best-selling, critically acclaimed
novel of the same name. While we eagerly await Episode 1, I’m
delighted to say that Sarai is my guest on the show today!


The heroine of the story is Plum Kettle, a ghostwriter for the
editor of one of New York’s hottest fashion magazines. Struggling
with self-image and fed up with how she’s treated by her boss and
society, Plum sets out on a wildly complicated road to
self-awakening. At the same time, everyone is buzzing over
news reports about men, accused of sexual abuse and assault, who
are disappearing and meeting untimely, violent deaths.


Plum also finds herself in the middle of two factions — one
sisterhood who may be responsible for the attacks on male
harassers, and the other which preaches female empowerment. She
straddles these two groups, trying to make sense of the changing
world and her part in it.


Equal parts revenge fantasy and heartfelt journey to
self-acceptance, Dietland is a darkly comedic story
that explores a multitude of issues faced by women today —
including patriarchy, misogyny, rape culture, and unrealistic
beauty standards.


About Sarai
Sarai Walker is author of the novel DIETLAND (May 2015),
which is now a TV series on AMC in the USA and Canada, and on
Amazon Prime in countries around the world. Her essays have
appeared in the New York
Times, the Guardian and the Washington
Post. Sarai worked as a writer and editor on the 2005 update
of Our Bodies, Ourselves, and previously wrote for magazines
including Seventeen and Mademoiselle. She earned
her M.F.A. in creative writing from Bennington College, and Ph.D.
in English from the University of London. Walker is currently
living in Los Angeles, where she is developing a new TV series,
as well as writing a second novel, which is even more bonkers
than her first one.


Follow Sarai
Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram


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