Isolationcast #17: Pandora Sykes on online exposure and building resilience

I am so delighted that my guest this week is Pandora Sykes, whose new book, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? Essays on Modern Life, is a thought-provoking and insightful dissection of contemporary fads and foibles - from wellness and self-optimisation, to our urge to appear "authentic" even when doing so is in itself superficial and so much more. I found her totally fascinating to speak to. As an early adopter of Instagram while working as a fashion journalist - and as the co-host of The High Low podcast - she has had to get used to putting herself out there, being public facing, and being scrutinised - for better and for worse - by the entire internet. We discussed that, as well as her identity struggles when she became a mother, how and when she writes (it's often in the small hours) and what, as someone who is highly sensitive, it is like to be publishing your thoughts and opinions in book form. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Instagram: @aliceazania / @pandorasykes Twitter: @aliceazania / @PINsykes Buy the book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-do-we-know-were-doing-it-right/pandora-sykes/9781786332073 Edited by Chelsey Moore

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The Sunday Salon is a podcast celebrating brilliant books and the women who write them, hosted by journalist Alice-Azania Jarvis. Each week she chats to an inspiring female author about her work, her career, how she writes, what she reads and everything in between. This is not some academic textual analysis – it’s about finding the stories behind the stories. Tune in each Sunday to hear from guests including Isabel Allende, Jessie Burton, Holly Bourne, Diana Evans, Elizabeth Day, Nimco Ali and Sophie Kinsella. Edited by Chelsey Moore.