{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/64c3be568e16bd0011b9ac5a/6515662642065c0011906480?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Heather Parry is Not Your Usual Writer","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/64c3be568e16bd0011b9ac5a/1695901058502-3a4af378113a63725831ee8918f33816.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Heather Parry is a prolific writer of novels, short fiction and non-fiction, often centred on our relationship with the body – the ways it can be used, transformed and made vulnerable.</p><p><br></p><p>Heather sits down with our books editor Anahit Behrooz to chat about her novel <em>Orpheus Builds A Girl</em>, her new short story collection, existentialism, music writing, the limits and liberations of genre, and cocktails.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Orpheus Builds a Girl</em> is out now with Gallic Books. <em>This Is My Body, Given For You</em> is out now with Haunt Publishing. <em>Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and the Failed Promises of Capitalism</em> is out with 404 Ink in April 2024.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Follow Heather on Instagram <a href=\"https://instagram.com/heatherparrywriter\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@heatherparrywriter</a>&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Not Your Usual is brought to you by <a href=\"https://glayva.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Glayva</a> and <a href=\"https://theskinny.co.uk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Skinny</a>. #NotYourUsual</p>","author_name":"The Skinny"}