Cassandra Javier
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E. Lockhart:
So...We Were Liars was a great read. I really like the fact that it leaves you feeling all these emotions and leaves you utterly breathless. I read the ruby Oliver novels years ago and I have to say that Liars is pretty different from it. What made you decide to shift perspectives and write a novel that's not "light"? And how was the writing process like?
E. Lockhart
It wasn't a deliberate choice, it was just the story idea that came to me. We Were Liars is the same as my other books in that it's about ambition and social class, and it has funny bits and first love and heartbreak. But you are right that it is different. It is essentially a suspense novel, and I had never done that before. It was hugely difficult to write.
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Gayle Forman
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E. Lockhart:
The firing of Jill Abramson at the New York Times has me thinking about female power and how it's used and what happens when it's used in a male-dominated world. Which of course has me thinking about my favorite feminist heroine, Frankie Landau Banks. What do you think Frankie would make of Abramson's firing? The putative reasons behind it and the way it was conducted?
Sher Wells
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E. Lockhart:
Just finished We Were Liars. Half-way through the book I told my husband that this was the best book I have ever read (I read a lot). A friend was telling me 3 years ago about the psychological technique of telling your "story" through a fairy tale; I am curious as to if you and she read/studied the same source on this technique. To have read this technique in your book was incredible
Zara
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E. Lockhart:
Near the end of Disreputable History, the narrator speaks in 1st person singular for the 1st time with "And so, another possibility..." (337). On the same page, the narrator switches from past to present tense with "Frankie Landau-Banks is an off-roader." After that, it's a mix of present and future, and the reader watches the last scene directly ("There's Frankie now..."). What was the intention behind these choices?
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