Amy Griffin: A Breakdown and What You Can Learn From It

Trigger Warning: This episode discusses sexual abuse, while not in detail, it may be disturbing and/or triggering to some listeners and viewers.

In this surprise episode, Mike and AJ break down the Amy Griffin controversy and how authors can learn from it. Amy Griffin authored the book The Tell, in which she recounts a repressed memory of alleged sexual abuse. However, Griffin’s classmate, Jane Doe, filed a lawsuit saying that the alleged story of SA was not Griffin’s, but Doe’s. Mike and AJ discuss the issue of authors taking stories that aren’t their own and how to learn from other stories without creating a false narrative.

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