- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once took a workshop with Jim Shepard, and he has this term, 'rate-of-revelation,' that has come to mean a lot to me: 'the pace at which we're learning crucial emotional information about the stories' central figures.' An ever-increasing rate-of-revelation is good; a stagnant r-of-r is not.
- Comeback
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- Nov 07, 2020
America loves a good comeback story!
- Brand
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young writer, I was sort of sailing around trying to 'find my voice' - for lack of a better term - and I was really chafing against the very minimal brand of domestic realism that I'd read so much of in college.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'The Third Hotel,' my narrator, Claire, is wrestling with this sense of perpetual unfinishedness. She's trying to make sense of her husband's death, how someone's life can just stop and not continue, and of the lack of resolution in her own inner life.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think writing, or any form of art-making, is a way to prepare for not being here. Not that we can. No amount of preparing can really ready us, in a meaningful way, for the great void that awaits us all.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested in how we narrate the places we visit, how the gap between what we see and what we know manifests when we're traveling.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Havana is a uniquely complicated city and contains a great many histories.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of specific cinematic influences, certainly I'd recommend 'Juan de los Muertos,' and I also really love this French zombie movie - 'Les Revenants' - where the dead reanimate for no apparent reason.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Find Me' I think, is brooding in a very literal sense of the word in that you have all of these sort of interior storm that's growing within Joy over the course of the book and leading her to her moment. And certainly, I think there's an aspect of the supernatural.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wager we have a vast amount of literature out there that tends to the stories of men, so I've never really worried too much about attending to stories of women.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my concern is I know my voice, and I know the kinds of landscapes that interest me, so my primary concern is doing the most I can with those voices and those landscapes.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Florida is a very idiosyncratic place in a lot of ways - as are many parts of our fine country, but one could say Florida is particularly idiosyncratic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, in general, something that's really rich in terms of identity about transit spaces is that they're so intimate. Especially thinking about long international flights when we're trying to sleep on the plane - we're total strangers, but we're sleeping next to each other.
- Lived
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in Florida until I was 22.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized that, for me, travel for work - I'm not speaking so much about travel for pleasure - had actually become a way of avoiding life.
- Followers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to be drawn to characters who are not rule followers, who behave in unexpected and unusual ways.
- Endured
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's something a little more personal: In my teens, I was having a hard time and ended up in a therapy group of young women, some of whom had endured terrible childhood traumas.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020