Heidi Julavits/ Other People

I just discovered the Other People podcast (interviews with authors) and this Heidi Julavits interview is blowing my mind, man. She says part of her process is to write, essentially, a whole other novel before starting her novel and then chucking it before writing what became the finished book. Can you imagine? (This also opens up the possibility of all that unpublished work being published someday... hopefully she didn't actually throw it away, in the physical sense.) Why didn't you people tell me about this podcast sooner? You were saving it for a special occasion, right? Well, this was special enough.