Michael Rieman

Michael Rieman asked T. Coraghessan Boyle:

I just read Drop City (though I am embarrassed to say it has been on my shelves since it was first published). It was a wonderful narrative, filled with the precise and stunning language for which you are famous. Did you feel close to some of them? I was wondering about Ronnie, who shared your "Eastern" background, and was a flawed character.

T. Coraghessan Boyle I try to be able to inhabit any character of any age, sex or ethnicity, including Bessie Bee, the elephant in " Big Game," who had just had enough poking and prodding by apes like us and wasn't going to take it anymore. Look at the variety, for instance, in my latest collection, "The Relive Box." As for Ronnie (and William Peck Wilson in "Talk Talk" or the narrators of "Greasy Lake" and "Up Against the Wall"), I do feel close to these flawed young male characters. I was one myself.

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Jan

Jan asked T. Coraghessan Boyle:

As always, I truly enjoyed and learned from the characters of The harder They Come. My question is "What ideas are brewing for your next book? Jan Schwarz

Kathryn

Kathryn asked T. Coraghessan Boyle:

I love listening to you reading your own work. While you are reading them, do you wish you could change a character or plot, that you left something out or you'd like a different ending?

John Schneider

John Schneider asked T. Coraghessan Boyle:

I know this may be like asking which are your favorite children, but how do you view your earliest work vs. your later work. What do you admire about each? If you'd allow me a second question, you mention in a prior answer that you have been inspired by being tired of news stories of random shootings or a biosphere so where did you get your earlier ideas for Water Music, Budding Prospects or World's End from?

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