With Daria Lavelle, on her breakout novel ‘Aftertaste’

Daria Lavelle was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and raised in New York. Her work explores themes of identity and belonging and her short stories have appeared in The Deadlands, Dread Machine, and elsewhere. Daria is the author of the critically acclaimed new novel Aftertaste which explores food, grief and the uncanny. 

On the podcast she tells Liv about her ‘inexplicable’ love of olives as a child in Ukraine, trying to make it as a writer in New York and how to write about food without it feeling contrived.