How Minnesota Shaped Writer Diablo Cody

Diablo Cody—who goes by Brook, her birth name, these days—hasn’t lived in the Twin Cities for nearly 20 years, but she still has a strong connection to this place. Sure, her brief time here was half her lifetime ago, but it was maybe the most pivotal chapter in it. After all, the Twin Cities is where Brook became Diablo and where Diablo became a blogger and where that blogger became a stripper and where that stripper became a memoirist and, ultimately, where that memoirist became an Oscar-winning screenwriter. 

Now firmly…