![]() What was it about journalism that appealed to you? Was it the wildness, the freedom? You became a journalist who specialized, as you put it, in stories about women who are too much. GARCIA-NAVARRO: You talk about, in the book, always wanting to have a sense of adventure. I think that the women's movement really told my generation that we could be the protagonists in our own lives. And the title is basically saying, you know, the rules that my mother and her mother had to follow did not apply to me. And I got to marry the woman I fell in love with. LEVY: Well, I mean, I think that I wanted to be a writer, and I got to do that. GARCIA-NAVARRO: The book is, as I said, called "The Rules Do Not Apply." So I want to take us back to the old Ariel Levy. Ariel Levy is a staff writer at The New Yorker, and she joins us now. The book goes on to detail the contours of those losses and how to get to the other side. In the last few months, I have lost my son, my spouse and my house. ![]() ![]() She writes, (reading) for the first time I can remember, I cannot locate my competent self. Ariel Levy's memoir "The Rules Do Not Apply" begins with a litany of tragedy. ![]()
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