The music I happen to be listening to can sometimes affect word choice, or cause a new line, but never affects style. I love rock – the louder the better.īut does the music leave an imprint on a book’s tone or pace? Would a chapter written while listening to the Animals, say, differ from a chapter written under the influence of the Ramones? Soon to be followed by Danny and the Juniors and the Animals.
I’ve heard that you like to write to loud music. Sympathy for the Devil by the Stones is low. An aria from Rigoletto, La donna è mobile, for instance – is high culture. Well, there’s still a strange – to me, anyway – and totally subjective line between high culture and low. Isn’t it also partly because the boundary between literary fiction and genre fiction has become more porous? The old high/low distinction doesn’t exist in the same way. I have outlived most of my most virulent critics. It feels good to be at least semi-respectable. You started out being dismissed by the literary establishment as a lowly peddler of cheap horror.
More people are anxious to stop a terrorist attack than to start one. This suggests you think most people are basically good. It’s how Senator Susan Collins keeps sliding by.įor all the terrors in your work, there’s an underlying faith in basic human decency. In Maine, lots of Republicans are more purple than red. I was sworn to secrecy, but feel the statute of limitations on that has run out. My mother bolted the GOP the last time she voted and cast a ballot for George McGovern. What would your mother make of today’s GOP?
You were raised in a working-class Republican household. Hopefully, people who read The Institute will find a resonant chord with this administration’s cruel and racial policies. Children are imprisoned and enslaved all over the world. Trump’s immigration policies didn’t impact the book, because it was written before that incompetent dumbbell became president. To what extent did Trump’s immigration policies affect the book? The Institute is about a concentration camp for children, staffed by implacable factotums. The scares come and go, but everyone likes make-believe monsters to stand in for the real ones. We’re in the spooky house – on the ghost train, if you prefer – for life. The world is a scary place, not just America. Is America a more or less scary place to write about now? Carrie was published against the backdrop of Watergate, Vietnam and the Patty Hearst kidnapping.
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