It is unusual for Joe to be that way, but that's what interested me.
From Michael Chabon
It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late.
I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.
I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.
The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.
Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.
People keep saying, 'Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.' I guess it does, but mostly it's just a relief.
It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well.
I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.
That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all.
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