Ask the Author: Alex Green
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Alex Green
A silent, but persistently chastising inner monologue whose voice sounds eerily similar to Ed Grimley.
Alex Green
The yachts, the moat, the summer home in Nice, the models, the cocaine, the fame, the notoriety, the refusal to take calls from HBO, the adulation, the sex, the free cans of Pringles....
Alex Green
There was a girl who moved from Texas to California and transferred into my eighth grade class two months before school ended. I had a ridiculous and instant crush on her and because she lived two streets away, I hoped to run into her over the summer and develop a kind of "Grease" narrative...
But then she vanished.
Her family moved. And when I asked the neighbors and friends of mine who lived nearby, nobody knew anything. Some didn't even remember who she was--that's how fast she moved in and moved out.
Certain I didn't invent her. But who moves halfway across the country for two months? Sure would like to get to the bottom of that...in a book.
But then she vanished.
Her family moved. And when I asked the neighbors and friends of mine who lived nearby, nobody knew anything. Some didn't even remember who she was--that's how fast she moved in and moved out.
Certain I didn't invent her. But who moves halfway across the country for two months? Sure would like to get to the bottom of that...in a book.
Alex Green
You have to write through it--it can be a towering wall, but you have to get past it. And all that means is writing until it breaks like a fever. And it always does.
Alex Green
Do it. Don't think of reasons not to. Life is short and you have books to write. The Kardashians already have several--don't let them win.
Alex Green
A kind of sequel to Emergency Anthems--one of the characters in the book gets his own book this time around, but he keeps showing up in different iterations of himself. Kind of like "Lost Highway" and also kind of not like that at all.
Alex Green
I think when I first saw "Slacker" back in the early '90s was when I decided that a book could probably do the same thing--and by that, I mean a book could have characters come and go and come again. Or not. The idea that a character could be called back and then dismissed, only to show up again later really appealed to me.
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