A conversation with the writer Lauren Hough

"What's interesting I think is I've always been this person, with this voice, and the way people react to me when I speak has never changed. They either love it or they goddamn want me to shut up."

“Defies categorisation” has become its own stupidly vague category of late, which renders the term a meaningless at best and at worst an inexcusable cliche. AND YET every once in a while I stumble across a writer who truly refuses to be slotted, whose work, subject, style, voice, turn-of-phrase, punctuation, whatever — tickles me under the chin then rig…