Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't.
From Ann Beattie
Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.
I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.
Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.
It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.
When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.
It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.
It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.
I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.
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