Kathryn interviews award-winning author Iris Smyles on her latest book “Iris Has Free Time: A Novel”. In the tradition of Elane Dundy's Jay Gorce, Kingsly Amis' Lucky Hime, and Truman Capote's Holly Golightly, Iris is a new anti-heroine, a bracingly unique voice treating age-old subjects of love, sex, work and identity with a freshness and originality that will startle and charm. From quarter-life crisis to the shock of turning thirty, Iris Has Free Time charts a madcap, melancholic course through that curious age-one's twenties-when childhood is over, supposedly. She was awarded The Doris Lip
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