Ask the Author: Michael Tolkin
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Michael Tolkin
Good to hear that.
Michael Tolkin
I just found this question. Answer: NK3 is coming out in paperback early in 2018, which is roughly now. So glad to hear you like the book, and also Among the Dead. I'd be curious to see what you think of Under Radar, which didn't get much attention, and is the book where I pressed hard into the unknown.
Michael Tolkin
I just found this question so I apologize for the delay. The two novelists I took as my literary parents are James M Cain and Patricia Highsmith. I discovered them when I was around thirty, and they gave me the inspiration and confidence to write my own books. The Player is most directly a product of the two. I had the privilege of a month at Yaddo, the artists retreat in upstate New York, and my room there had the desk and rug Highsmith gave to Yaddo in her will. I like books with a well modulated perversity, and I find little to inspire me in best selling literary fiction. My script work... some combination of Fellini, Ford, Fassbinder -- yes, any filmmaker whose name begins with F... Ford Coppola, Fpielberg... ---- this year, the scripts that impressed me the most (made me itchy to be that good) were The Disaster Artist I, Tonya, Killing of a Sacred Deer.
Michael Tolkin
I was caught in a fog in Gijon, a city on the north coast of Spain. The city disappeared. It was a month before 9/11. NK3 started with thinking about disappearance.
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