“Anytime you work with materials that are deep parts of yourself, you feel revulsion at showing things about yourself that you don’t want people to know.
“White Oleander, for example, was so much about loneliness, and I was revealing something about myself. You have to work as deeply as you can to give the reader something [...]
Entries from April 2007
Janet Fitch on using the deep parts in writing
A.M. Homes on the emotional challenges of writing dark material
Her novel The End of Alice is “a tale told by a pedophile in his twenty-third year in a maximum security prison. He is intelligent; he is witty; he is profoundly dangerous.
“Beyond the reality of his stark cell and the violent perversion of the other inmates lies his imagination, which he turns to his past, [...]
