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“Fair Ones is on another wavelength.”
“Adjusting to Claire’s absence, they spend time with others who knew Claire, and try to figure out how she was killed.”
“A lumbering plant-eater.”) Millet’s 2022 novel Dinosaurs also reflects her fascination with long extinct creatures.”
“Ones , told from Jen’s point of view, picks up a year later.”
“author interview Fair Ones interviews Jane Ciabattari Lydia Millet W.W.”
“Mara is the narrator of Fair , which begins just after Claire is murdered.”
“Lydia Millet: No mapping!”
“I don’t mean not be boring, that’s a whole other question, I mean not bore myself as I’m writing.”
“This was two books in one like two people side by side, going forward, distinct but overlapping.”
“JC: The first novel, Fair , is narrated by Mara, beginning shortly after Claire’s death.”
“Claire’s ex-boyfriend Jase, a finance bro, shows up with a new girlfriend twenty years younger and her rude BFF.”
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“I wanted to start the book out in shock a bit myself, as the characters are in shock, but it’s hard to fake.”
“JC: How did Jon Hamm, the star of Mad Men , find his way into a cameo appearance in the hot tub on Jase’s roof?”
“How did you map out your exploration of the complexity of Mara and Jen’s individual arcs of grief?”
“Norton and Company Jane Ciabattari Jane Ciabattari, author of the short story collection Stealing the Fire, is a former National Book Critics Circle president (currently on the Advisory Board ) and a member of the Writers Grotto and Page Street.”
““It was just: Can I write something that’s realist, that’s mostly dialogue, that’s mostly social interactions among a small group of people, and not be bored?”
“JC: Your setting is mostly New York City.”
“It’s like a scene in a play, or a film.”
“The three, friends since college, were as bonded as family, and now one is gone and the others are “stricken,” as you write.”