Interview with Annilee Newton, author of Thessalonika
Aug 31, 2026 · 57 min · 18 segments
Chris Gardner talked with Annilee Newton about her forthcoming novel, *Thessalonika.*
Aug 31, 2026 · 57 min · 18 segments
Chris Gardner talked with Annilee Newton about her forthcoming novel, *Thessalonika.*
That's not something I thought about going through, but that's a really good point.
One might then expect that this turns into a novel primarily interested in those gender dynamics, that it would be kind of a catch-me-if-you-can novel as Cleo looks to live as John Ash.
I think what she did not want to become implicated in, but which really quickly becomes a part of her life, is the political, socio-political, like, reality of Greece.
And she is in a place that there's still a very, I mean, it just went through a civil war.
And the side that one is the side that is paying for her fellowship, you know, through the Marshall plan, her side, the capitalist side.
That's not something I thought about going through, but that's a really good point.
One might then expect that this turns into a novel primarily interested in those gender dynamics, that it would be kind of a catch-me-if-you-can novel as Cleo looks to live as John Ash.
I think what she did not want to become implicated in, but which really quickly becomes a part of her life, is the political, socio-political, like, reality of Greece.
And she is in a place that there's still a very, I mean, it just went through a civil war.
And the side that one is the side that is paying for her fellowship, you know, through the Marshall plan, her side, the capitalist side.
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