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Fans of Fans of Rachel Yoder’s 2021 debut novel, Nightbitch (Doubleday), got a chance to see the genre-spanning tale adapted into a big-budget film when Amy Adams starred in the movie version, released in December. AW interviewed Yoder by email.
Our esteemed colleague Maureen McCollum, host of WPR’s “Wisconsin Life,” made time to talk with Yoder on WPR’s “BETA” about motherhood, reactions to the book, the film and what it might be like to live a dog’s life.
In a recent Mother Tongue essay, “A Matter of Time.” writer Rachel Yoder was inspired by a series of conversations with her young son about keeping track of every minute of every day. Yoder writes that his fixation on how much time he has left prompted her to reflect on the “particular gift of motherhood: the ability to hold both life and death in a single body. The ability to see reality while also finding space to hope.” Listen to the interview.
Director Marielle Heller and Author Rachel Yoder Discuss Their Creative Collaboration on "Nightbitch"
Romance, fury, domesticity, ferality — Greenwell and Yoder both grapple with the chaos and comforts of being human in a storytelling style that can’t be mistaken for another author. So we had a proposal for the two locals: Interview each other, let us record the conversation and then participate in a photoshoot that would double as a kind of trust exercise. In spite of some impossibly busy schedules, both writers were game.
Hannah Bonner considers Marielle Heller’s new adaptation of “Nightbitch,” Rachel Yoder’s 2021 novel.
An instant hit thanks to its outrageous, subversive take on motherhood, Rachel Yoder’s debut novel Nightbitch was quickly picked up for a movie. As the film starring Amy Adams hits the big screen, we caught up with Rachel to chat about her reading habits, favourite authors, must-read books and what’s next..
Janet Manley on Marielle Heller’s Adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s Novel
The novelist’s cult book about a stay-at-home mother who turns into a dog is now a film starring Amy Adams. She talks about modern parenting, breaking taboos, and how Trump’s win spurred her to write.
“When people ask me what the movie is about, I’m like, ‘It’s about motherhood and rage,’” says director Marielle Heller in this exclusive first look. “And you either get that or you don’t.”
Amy Adams-vehicle Nightbitch has landed a Dec. 6, 2024, release in cinemas during the heart of awards season. The Searchlight Pictures and Annapurna film was originally intended to debut on Hulu, but will now get a theatrical release.
With series and movies such as ‘Yellowjackets’ and ‘Bones and All,’ female characters with an unbridled appetite have become a hallmark of our culture.
Birth is a transformational experience but it's also an emotionally fraught one, with sometimes traumatic consequences, says midwife Leah Hazard. Here she recommends five books that discuss the deep psychological impact of childbirth, the debate over interventionism, and the inequalities baked into the practice of obstetrics.
How do the demands of motherhood change us and can we survive with our pre-parenting identities intact? Rachel Yoder and Esther Freud in conversation.
Traditional depictions of motherhood failed in the face of the baffling new reality I faced once I became a mother.
Some of the Fodor’s editors are sharing what they loved to read this year, from new releases to books that have been on their wishlist for years.
The DNA of “Nightbitch,” it turns out, is more Angela Carter than Rachel Cusk. It sees the past decade’s cerebral fictions of motherhood and raises them several murdered forest creatures, a shit on a lawn, and a pack of M.L.M. moms stoned on trippy drugs watching another mom scarf raw steak.
In the novel Nightbitch, motherhood is a feral unbecoming. And in writing the best-selling book, the new mother and author, Rachel Yoder, returned to herself again.
Janet Manley on Hettie Judah and the Perennial Problem of the “Mother-Shaped Hole”
Leticia Urieta, author of "Las Criaturas," recommends stories about channeling anger and unruliness in the face of oppression
“It wasn’t long after I first held Evie that a somewhat familiar, yet unrecognizable darkness began to follow me around, and after some testing and hard truths were admitted, doctors were called, medication was prescribed, and talk therapy was set up.
A few weeks later, I found Nightbitch…”
In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Rachel Yoder (Nightbitch) about the 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, directed by John Hughes and starring Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, and Mia Sara.
In a crowded field of novel-manifestos about the indignity of parenting, Nightbitch is primal and corporeal, a labor scream of a book..
In this unforgettable debut novel, Yoder delivers an outrageous Kafka-esque parable about the mundanity and monstrosity of early motherhood.
If you’ve ever suspected motherhood had a darker, possibly feral underbelly, you’re sure to enjoy this darkly hilarious debut…
The red of it all is rather striking, and the classic advertising imagery, soft and grainy, feels both nostalgic and subversive, especially considering the novel’s premise: A stay-at-home mother/artist becomes convinced she’s turning into a dog. Blink and you’ll miss the butcher paper in the shape of a doberman’s head.
Giving birth is the closest many of us come to being an outright animal. We crouch on all fours, dripping and howling, and, if it goes well, we are aided by instincts we didn’t know we had to push a snuffling, bloody creature into the world. Yet immediately, we are expected to give up on this new animality and return to society, whether it comes in the guise of work and childcare or maternity leave and baby massage classes. What if we refuse to do so?
Nightbitch is a satirical swipe at the failed ‘have it all’ lifestyle…By its conclusion, readers have to wonder: what is the ‘all’ that we were promised to have…