Ask the Author: Marc Grossberg
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Marc Grossberg
Stuff pops in my head - mostly a memory triggers a thought and I take it from there. Sometimes it results in fiction and sometimes it results in a personal essay and sometimes I get distracted and do something else. That may be the most frequently occurring. So, the thing is, get it down or you will lose it.
Marc Grossberg
How I deal with writer's block. I started to answer that question and then . . . .
Marc Grossberg
I feel pretty good when I get something down that resonates with me. I feel really good when someone calls me an author or a writer. But the best thing getting something down in writing that is a part of me. Some of it I want no one but me to see, but getting it down, proving I existed, whether it is invented or not. The tragedy of the Holocaust, the tragedy of all genocides, is that there are people who lived and no one after they are gone will have known they lived.
Marc Grossberg
A cold case mystery based on two actual deaths but which is fictional. A long personal essay about what has come to be my personal philosophy: live in the NOW and accept the consequences of all your choices, don't let them drag you down or interfere with NOW
Marc Grossberg
This is sort of off-the-wall, but when I read the question, what popped out was Budd Schulberg's Hollywood. I read What Makes Sammy Run and after that I read all his novels in the order they were written. His screenplay for A Face In The Crowd (1057) - in fact the whole film - is wonderful and if you saw it today you would think it was written for 2016.
Marc Grossberg
So some years ago I was at a family event at the Marriott on the West Loop. I had to go to the restroom. I was in a stall and I heard female voices I thought the voices came from the vent but then I realized I was in the women's restroom. I waited and made a stealthy exit. When I got home I thought what if you overhear a conversation you weren't supposed to hear because you were someplace you weren't supposed to be. I sat down and wrote the story. It took many years to turn it into a novel and many more to turn it into a publishable one, but the basic story and the main characters never changed.
Marc Grossberg
I just finished Brighton by Michael Harvey and before that The Silent Witness. Next up, The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada and finishing Ninth Street Women, Sapiens, and some others, but you never know what is going to pop up.
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