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Marlon James on (Finally) Writing a Novel That Draws From His Life
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1005+ words) Says a narrator in Marlon James’s freshly Booker-nominated The Disappearers, “I’ve made such a terrible mess out of being a homo.” The novel’s protagonists are all gay men in ‘80s and ‘90s Jamaica; each makes similar proclamations. “But the statement is unfair,…...
Hannah Thurman on Writing a Family Drama Set in a Mental Hospital
4+ mon, 1+ day ago (537+ words) In her acknowledgments, she credits her mother, Rita Thurman, for “the initial inspiration to set a novel on a fictionalized Dix Hill (with a very different family from our own.)” What was the seed that evolved into this novel? I…...