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?

T. Coraghessan Boyle "Water Music" grew out of my Ph.D. in 19th century British lit. "Budding Prospects" dropped in my lap, as these characters are among my closest friends in life outside of fiction and the plantation and its disasters were all lived through. World's End was my penance for having ignored the history outside the window when I was a punk in New York (and a kind of fictional autobiography as well).

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