Ask the Author: Alice Lichtenstein
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Alice Lichtenstein
Out of darkness came a terrific scream. A clawed hand reached out and grabbed my--
Alice Lichtenstein
What a fun question! Off the top of my head, I would like to travel to the remote monastery in the mountains of Japan where Jiko, the wise grandmother of "A Tale for the Time Being" (Ruth Ozeki) lives as abbot-in-residence. I want to enter the green, quiet of her solitary temple and watch her take part in ritual and join her in silence.
Alice Lichtenstein
I have just finished my new novel, "The Crime of Being", and am wide open to summer reading! I'd like to hear what others are reading this summer. When I'm writing, I don't read novels very often--I'm too susceptible to the rhythms of other voices. So please tell ME what I should read!! Thanks, Alice
Alice Lichtenstein
I am attempting to finish my new novel, "The Crime of Being," the examination from several points of view of a small town hate crime. My fingers are crossed that the final "i" will be dotted by spring!
Alice Lichtenstein
Is this even a question? Elizabeth and Darcy, but of course!!
Alice Lichtenstein
Imagining it as wooden, I chop at it. How do I chop? Type anything rather than nothing: dreams, shopping lists, letters to the editor. Sit in the chair and chop.
Alice Lichtenstein
Not a single moment of awareness is wasted.
Alice Lichtenstein
Damn simple: write.
Alice Lichtenstein
Inspiration comes in different forms: sometimes an image; sometimes an incident that confounds me. The image or incident lodges in my brain and gestates. I try to leave it alone. I know that it's there, but I trust the process of letting it sit and grow fat and hairy until it bursts into full-blown prose. Then it takes years of writing and re-writing to become a novel.
Alice Lichtenstein
My most recent book is the book I am now finishing, a novel (again set in upstate New York), that focuses on an incident of racial hatred in a small town.
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