Obsessions: they are one of the most important tools for a writer. We return to the same themes again and again, if not explicitly in our work, then in order to fill ourselves up creatively. Before I wrote fiction, I wrote poetry, and my poems were full of eggs, floorboards, deer, ghostly women, Queen Anne’s lace, artesian wells, and milk. These images now reappear in my fiction, and so do the same concerns: the loneliness of the outsider, the human longing for connection, and the untrustworthiness of memory. I rework the same ideas on a never-ending mission to get them, finally, right.
House Museums
House Museums
House Museums
Obsessions: they are one of the most important tools for a writer. We return to the same themes again and again, if not explicitly in our work, then in order to fill ourselves up creatively. Before I wrote fiction, I wrote poetry, and my poems were full of eggs, floorboards, deer, ghostly women, Queen Anne’s lace, artesian wells, and milk. These images now reappear in my fiction, and so do the same concerns: the loneliness of the outsider, the human longing for connection, and the untrustworthiness of memory. I rework the same ideas on a never-ending mission to get them, finally, right.