Body of Work: The Journo Series — Jacqueline LeKachman & Andrea Javor on Journalism & Creative Nonfiction | Totally Biased Reviews

Jacqueline LeKachman and Andrea Javor discuss Body of Work: The Journo Series with Parley Lit — where journalism meets literary nonfiction. Welcome to our first episode where we focus on a body of work in journalism, featuring Andrea Javor and Jacqueline LeKachman talking about their incredible and prolific careers. Andrea Javor is a freelance writer based in Chicago whose work has been featured in Vogue, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The LA Times, Town & Country, USA Today, McSweeney's, and more. As a multi-decades marketing professional and amateur poker player, Andrea is an expert at telling stories using data, personal anecdotes, research, and even cards. Her memoir, Ace of Hearts: What Poker Taught Me About Love, is currently agented and seeking a publisher. Connect with her at https://www.andreajavor.com/  or on Instagram: @AndreaEJavor. About Andrea's work-in-progress, Ace of Hearts: In this voice-driven memoir I use the strategic language of poker to explore how women navigate risk, identity, and emotional labor in life and love. It's a multidisciplinary inquiry written to teach women how to wager our worth in a system stacked against us. Some of Andrea's work we talked about in this episode! https://www.vogue.com/article/what-getting-divorced-in-my-20s-taught-me-about-love https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/a68927383/high-stakes-poker-luxury-guide/ Jacqueline LeKachman is a New York-based writer and editor who writes about family, sex, and other things that keep her up at night. Her essays appear in The Washington Post, The Guardian, HuffPost, Women's Health, Business Insider, Newsweek, Salon, Slate, and more. Formerly a NYC public high school English teacher, she's now a freelance copyeditor for Penguin Random House and for individual writers. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction from The New School and a masters in journalism from the CUNY Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Connect with her via her website: https://www.jacquelinelekachman.com  About Jacqueline's work-in-progress: My nonfiction book explores how living with my mom's compulsive hoarding and losing my virginity to sexual compliance led me to become celibate for over two years in my twenties. During that time, I educated myself on the nuances of consent and investigated the long-hidden family secrets that made me desperate for control. In giving up sex, I found what I had lacked for most of my life: understanding and agency. Some of Jacqueline's work we talked about in this episode! https://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-love/a63539594/sexual-compliance-personal-essay/ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mom-daughter-strained-relationship-photo_n_669959a0e4b0e9707971f108      Totally Biased Reviews is a Parley Lit production in collaboration with Parley Productions. Hosted and Edited by Asha Dore and Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth. www.AshaDore.net  www.parleyproductions.com Music by Nuclear Peasant. Find more at www.TotallyBiasedReviews.com