There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me. Had you begun to like your fierce misfits of dead characters by the end? Although in that Margaret ends up not in Hell literally, just moved out to the suburbs. We have it in various guises – The Shawshank Redemption or Judy Blume's Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, which I used as almost a model for this. It's a very old style, the innocent ending up in terrible circumstances I've just gone further. Why have so relatively few books been written on this premise? If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.Ī story told by one of the dead: it's a fascinating idea, but a smallish genre. Your influences are Dante in this one, and I see you and Bret Easton Ellis are mutual fans he's just compared you to Don DeLillo.
The whole culture seems to love those films and yet I'll never get it! It's just one of those films, that and The Piano, that I felt utterly shut out of. In Hell, the film that always plays is The English Patient. I won't be going to Turkey any time soon… I needed to express somehow my grief at having then lost both of my parents and I knew that would not make a very entertaining or particularly funny book, so I inverted the situation and made it this very plucky dead child, who could mourn her parents while they were still on Earth – but still she could miss them.Ĭongratulations, incidentally, on recently being added to the Turkish state's list of "suspect authors", along with such luminaries as Philip Roth and the Marquis de Sade. I thought Madison, your antiheroine, was more resilient than glib.
She's covering up a bunch of horrible circumstances and pain. It was a terrible time and perhaps that's why Madison's such a glib person. I was playing in effect the role of parent. On her medication she became much more herself as a child a child I never would have known. It was absolutely a misery because I was writing the book while taking care of my mother who was dying of cancer. And you write in the voice of a 13-year-old girl. Rather than your usual homeland settings of the Portland/Seattle area, your latest, Damned, is set a little further afield – in Hell. So I'm as thrilled as anybody at the fact it did work. Everyone advised me all the way through development that it could not be produced. I might find a publisher for every second or third book but Fight Club has given me a huge readership.
Would you still be writing if that hadn't happened? Even though you've written 13 novels, the one best remembered surely is Fight Club, because of the film starring Brad Pitt and Ed Norton.
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