Jason Kirk
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Jason Kirk:
[Answering questions that I wasn't able to get to during our book launch party.] From Will Made Good: "How did you get back into the mind of a teenager so well? Was there research or did you have journals to look back on?"
Jason Kirk
Did I ever leave it in the first place?
I don't think any adults are as Grown Up as we like to believe. We look back on our younger selves and put on a big performance of cringing and recoiling, to let everyone know we're so much cooler now than we used to be, but that's the thing: We're not cool now, either.
The work was really just about getting honest, then constantly realizing I hadn't gotten honest enough yet. Stripping away weapons wielded as armor and looking at the kid I was fighting to reclaim, a kid who said every thought that entered his head, whether it came out right or not.
Isaac's mom (who is at times the book's closest thing to an author stand-in, despite voting and believing very differently from me) explains it like this: "It takes honesty, to look back at who we were before we learned to hide."
(Also, the book needed lots of dick jokes, but again: Adults also make shitloads of dick jokes. We're not as Grown Up as we like to believe.)
I don't think any adults are as Grown Up as we like to believe. We look back on our younger selves and put on a big performance of cringing and recoiling, to let everyone know we're so much cooler now than we used to be, but that's the thing: We're not cool now, either.
The work was really just about getting honest, then constantly realizing I hadn't gotten honest enough yet. Stripping away weapons wielded as armor and looking at the kid I was fighting to reclaim, a kid who said every thought that entered his head, whether it came out right or not.
Isaac's mom (who is at times the book's closest thing to an author stand-in, despite voting and believing very differently from me) explains it like this: "It takes honesty, to look back at who we were before we learned to hide."
(Also, the book needed lots of dick jokes, but again: Adults also make shitloads of dick jokes. We're not as Grown Up as we like to believe.)
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Jason Kirk
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Jason Kirk:
[Answering questions that I wasn't able to get to during our book launch party] From Dan McFall: "You've hinted at it on social media over the year and I am curious what putting this novel together has revealed to you about your faith today? Not necessary in Christianity or even a biblical notion of God just what spiritual catharsis came out of the book."
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