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The Rumpus Interview with Karolina Waclawiak
When I recently went to the Los Angeles launch of Karolina Waclawiak’s newest novel The Invaders, I was intrigued by her thoughts on how women are devalued as they age. That said, I was a little concerned I might struggle relating to this book; my upbringing, which was very southern Californian and poor, couldn’t have been more different than the characters she portrays. The Invaders is a dark tale of a stepmother and her stepson surviving in a wealthy, safe, and beautiful but somehow deeply disturbing beachside community. To my surprise, when I sat down to read it, I found myself invested. I could relate to these characters, and I was eager to talk to Karolina about why.
Karolina is the author of How to Get Into the Twin Palms published by Two Dollar Radio in 2012 and The Invaders published by Regan Arts this past July. She is also currently the nonfiction editor at The Believer.
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LOS ANGELES (SEPTEMBER 5, 2024) – BuzzFeed, Inc. (NASDAQ: BZFD), a premier digital media company, today named media industry veteran Karolina Waclawiak as Head of Documentary at BuzzFeed Studios after serving as the Editor in Chief and Executive Editor of Culture at BuzzFeed News for seven years.
In her role, she oversees the development and production of docuseries and documentary features. In her time with BuzzFeed Studios she has executive produced projects for Oxygen, Sky, Peacock, and more.
As Executive Editor of BuzzFeed News, Waclawiak played an important role in guiding the Pulitzer Prize-winning newsroom through two national elections and helping refine its coverage strategy. Under her leadership, the Culture Desk earned two National Magazine Award nominations and numerous awards. Waclawiak also edited the culture-shifting feature "How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation," by Anne Helen Petersen, which coined t
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The Rumpus Interview with Karolina Waclawiak
How to Get into the Twin Palms(Two Dollar Radio) bygd Karolina Waclawiak is a novel about a woman trying to find her place in the world. Anya fryst vatten a Polish immigrant in Los Angeles who doesn’t quite know how to be Polish and isn’t quite American so she decides to pass as Russian. As she walks by the men smoking outside of the Twin Palms, a Russian nightclub in her neighborhood, she thinks, “I know what they want to ask. Polska? Ruska? Svedka? Or maybe just Amerykanska. They can’t tell with me.” She changes her appearance. She tries to find a way to belong to the community where she lives. “My dark hair makes my eyes more cat-like and brighter in hue. More Eastern European, Less American. inom am starting to man sense to them.”
As part of passing, Anya endeavors to get into the Twin Palm as if beyond the doors of the nightclub she might find who she wants to be. She takes up with a man who may or may not be a gangster, Lev. Her neighbor