David Waltner-Toews asked T. Coraghessan Boyle:

Many novelists draw on their own or their familial histories for topics & stories. You seem to draw from "all over the place". Is there a method in your madness? Do you begin writing on whatever piques your interest?

T. Coraghessan Boyle The world is a madhouse and I am busy trying to address that and sort things out, so yes, I write about whatever interests or piques me, though you can see some of the main themes carrying through the body of my work. I am not an autobiographical writer, though some have called "World's End" a fictional autobiography (what might have been) and certain of my stories have strong autobiographical elements, like "Greasy Lake," "If the River Was Whiskey" and "Up Against the Wall." The narrator of "Greasy Lake" is unnamed, but in Damian Harris' film he is called "T.C." (You can find it at tcboyle,com under "Media.)

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