Why write a novel about a brutal female rapist in the age of #MeToo? Amber Tamblyn explains

The poet, Hollywood star and Time’s Up co-founder releases her debut novel Any Man this month, and it is already causing a major stir. She talks about why men’s empathy is essential

‘Nothing about pregnancy is not violent,” says Amber Tamblyn. “Nothing. From the minute you find out and you’re puking everywhere, to the thoughts that run through your head about the things you imagine doing if someone harmed your child.” Pregnancy, she adds, can make you feral.

In a sun-drenched restaurant in Brooklyn, we are discussing the 35-year-old’s debut novel, Any Man. It is a dark piece of experimental fiction about a female serial rapist. Tamblyn, a poet, activist and actor (she starred in the films The Ring and The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants and as the title character in the TV series Joan of Arcadia), wrote the bulk of the novel while pregnant with her first child. Some of the book’s darkness, she says, is a product of this, borne from a “shadow part” of herself that she experienced for the first time while pregnant. Part of [the book’s] brutality came from “carrying a woman inside of me, in 2016, during that particular election year”.

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