Laura Catherine Brown
What are you currently working on?
I’m writing a novel, this one told in the first person, about a New York City artist, a painter, who has to earn a living and winds up with a day job as a graphic designer in a financial institution. The novel opens during the financial crisis. Polly Jamson is 35 years old and fears that time is running out for making her name as an artist. She leaps at an opportunity when a hedge fund manager expresses interest in her work, and she becomes entangled in his chicanery, which she’s not blind to. She enters into a transactional relationship with him as her ambition overrides her moral compass. Success comes at a steep price. Imposter syndrome plays a part. She’s forced to reconcile the disconnect between artist success and creative fulfillment. While it’s not autobiographical, it feels, thematically, like my life.
I’m writing a novel, this one told in the first person, about a New York City artist, a painter, who has to earn a living and winds up with a day job as a graphic designer in a financial institution. The novel opens during the financial crisis. Polly Jamson is 35 years old and fears that time is running out for making her name as an artist. She leaps at an opportunity when a hedge fund manager expresses interest in her work, and she becomes entangled in his chicanery, which she’s not blind to. She enters into a transactional relationship with him as her ambition overrides her moral compass. Success comes at a steep price. Imposter syndrome plays a part. She’s forced to reconcile the disconnect between artist success and creative fulfillment. While it’s not autobiographical, it feels, thematically, like my life.
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