I wasn’t on contract for it, and it took years and years. What do you make of the success of Great Circle ? Now I’m like, Who are these people? The online influencers and HGTV stars, I have no idea who they are. When I was a teenager, and later, everyone picked up People magazine at the grocery store or the doctor’s office, and you knew who everyone was.
Less and less, because it’s so fragmented now. Sometimes there’s just a mundane aspect to it. Fame is so fascinating: there’s so much glamour, there’s artifice, there’s underlying skeeviness. Writing about Hollywood tropes or riffing on existing stories allows you to start with a pre-established familiarity for the reader.
What draws you to that experience?Ĭelebrity gossip is our substitution for when we lived in smaller communities-we knew more people in common and had gossip we could all take part in. You feature several characters that are either famous or adjacent to fame.
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