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Nick Hornby is the bestselling author of eight novels, including High Fidelity and About a Boy, and several works of non-fiction including his ground-breaking debut, Fever Pitch. He has written numerous award-winning screenplays for film and television including Brooklyn, Wild and, most recently, State of the Union.
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NICK ON WRITING
I'm always rather amazed when people talk about your books as
being jolly accounts of popular culture. There are a lot potential disasters for
your characters and they're hanging on by the skin of their teeth.
Somebody said that it was the 'comedy of depression'. I think it is
why a certain group of people respond so strongly to the books, all the
characters are depressed.
I think you actually use the word depression in all the books?
I guess there are an awful lot of people out there who do feel
depressed and don't find that low level depression reflected in many books that
they read. Literature is usually much more crisis-focused.
You wouldn't describe your books as 'domestic', but you write about daily
lives and ordinary things, which maybe one doesn't get in a lot of books.
I don't mind my books being described as domestic at all. It was very
much an impetus when I started writing. I read a lot books by women and
identified with them much more because I lived a domestic life - and most of us
do - and that really wasn't reflected in any of the books written by men. It
seemed odd to me that most of us bring up families and go to work and yet ...
Melissa Bank was an American author. She attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and had an MFA from Cornell University. Her works include The Girls' Guide to Hunting, Fishing, a volume of short stories: The Worst Thing a... (more)
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Charles Baxter is the author of the novels The Feast of Love (nominated for the National Book Award), First Light, Saul and Patsy, Shadow Play, The Soul Thief, and The Sun Collective and the story collections Believers, ... (more)
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