Kelcie
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T. Coraghessan Boyle:
When music/ non-literature media influences your work, do you find that it is more often the jumping-off-point/inspiration for a story or something you add to an existing work-in-progress as further texture? (I'm thinking, specifically, of Bruce Springsteen and "Greasy Lake," but am asking more broadly).
T. Coraghessan Boyle
I love it, Kelcie, because I've just re-read "Greasy Lake" for the first time in years, as I will present it live at USC on Thursday. Many things inspire me to write a given story. In that case, many years ago, it was the notion of teen selfhood, not to mention angst. We have all been to Greasy Lake.
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Susanne
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T. Coraghessan Boyle:
I just finished The Terranauts, but I am a little dissatisfied with the end. Or maybe not, maybe I am just dissatisfied, because the characters are totally human,normal,average, in everything, aside from being Terranauts? I read it, while riding a raft around Brandenburgs waterworld with 6 other people. We were totally in nature,not much other stuff but birds, trees water. It was the perfect book for the adventure.
Aaron
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T. Coraghessan Boyle:
I'm curious about your process because you excel at both novels and short stories. When coming up with ideas for your work, do you immediately know if it's a novel or a story? Or do you just write until the work figures out on its own what it wants to be? With that asked, do you have a personal short story that you think could be retold as a full-length novel?
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