Best Of: Novelist Douglas Stuart / ‘Half Man’ Actor Richard Gadd
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LifeKit is here to help. Consider us your mental health accountability buddy with episodes on everything from navigating social anxiety to unlearning perfectionism. Listen to the LifeKit podcast in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. From WHYY in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend. Today, writer Douglas Stewart, like the main character in his Booker Prize-winning novel called Shuggy Bane, Stewart grew up in Glasgow, working class, queer, and with a mother addicted to alcohol.
His first career was designing for Calvin Klein and Banana Republic from Outerwear to underwear. Sometimes when I'm in an audience now and I sort of look out and I feel a little bit nervous, I have a joke to myself. I think, how many people in this audience have worn the underwear that you designed? Stewart has a new novel.
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