Her novel, “ Sea of Tranquility,” is a sequel of sorts to her hit 2014 book, “ Station Eleven.”Įmily St. In the meantime, enjoy this conversation between Miller and an author who wrote one of the most anticipated books of 2022, Emily St. This Friday, on Big Books and Bold Ideas, MPR News host Kerri Miller will talk with Kapoor about her crime novel that has been described as “ dazzling,” with “ echoes of ‘The Godfather’.” Such is the case for the “ Age of Vice” by author Deepti Kapoor, one of the most anticipated books of 2023. I would imagine it would give you a feeling of creative confidence to take a big swing.Each year, there are a few new books that reduce readers to a frenzy before the words even arrive at the printing press. You clearly know that you can do this and that readers are receptive.
You’ve had this massive success with Station. I don’t know that I would have written this crazy book about a time traveling detective who lives on a moon colony if we weren’t all kind of deranged in 2020, which we were.īrad Listi: Yeah, that’s interesting, because as you were first saying all this, I was thinking of the word confidence. There was this feeling when I started working on the book in earnest in March of 2020 in New York City of, you know what, the world is horrible, I’m just going to write whatever I want. And that’s really gone out the window with Sea of Tranquility, which is partly just a product of the time in which it was written. Let’s keep it kind of straightforward here. I used to be really scared about being taken seriously as a writer and not writing anything too weird. And for me personally, I’m also less scared than I used to be. Just because expertise develops over time.īrad Listi: You get better at making those little micro choices.Įmily St. I think my sixth book is better than my fifth, and my fifth is better than my fourth, which is better than my third. Anything good comes about from round after round after round of obsessive revision.Īnd you do just get better at it, which I don’t mean in an arrogant way. For me personally, and everybody writes books differently, my first draft is always a disaster. You just have to be kind of reckless and just throw yourself into the project. And yet I-who am, I think, inherently skeptical-I was along for the ride. It made a lot more sense to me once I realized that.Ī question with regard to all of this is, how do you keep from getting overwhelmed? How do you give yourself these big tasks and then write your way into them and then render this stuff in a manner that feels authentic and acceptable to a reader? Because it’d be an easy thing to screw up.īrad Listi: I mean, this guy in the forest looks up into a tree and there’s a schism in time. When I first read it, I was like, wow, how did Emily come up with this? But then it’s like, if you’re starting with the simulation hypothesis in mind, then you’re looking for a way for it to manifest.
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