In an interview with the DIY MFA podcast, Leslie Johansen Nack discusses her novel, The Blue Butterfly, A Novel of Marion Davies, a historical fiction novel about Marion Davies and the burgeoning Hollywood scene in the 1920s. Nack shares:
- Why she leaned into fiction for this project as opposed to writing a biography
- Her research process and how she chose which scenes to fictionalize
- How she balanced writing about the public and private personas of her characters
