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Feb 18, 2022

Kathryn speaks with Mansi Shah, author of "The Taste of Ginger" and Senior Vice President of Legal at Warner Bros., about how she balances her writing and legal careers, and what the process of writing is like for her. Mansi discusses the biggest challenges she faces when writing a novel, and why she decided to root her book in the immigrant experience. She also talks about how she decided what to draw on to create the main character of her book.


Episode Resources

  • https://mansikshah.com/
  • The Taste of Ginger: A Novel

    Episode Highlights
  • Why Mansi Shah decided to go to law school. - 0:51
  • How did she wind up in the area of being an entertainment lawyer? - 2:20
  • Things in the area of her specialty that spoke to Mansi. - 4:58
  • Balancing other pursuits of interest while still managing a legal career. - 7:13
  • The inflexibility of the big law. - 13:04
  • Making decisions on what to include and what not to include while writing her book. - 18:07
  • Advice to those who want to do something similar: Balancing their legal careers and writing at the same time. - 20:02


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