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...book is always better. Seeing a movie made from a favorite novel, or even an ordinary one, the reader-viewer invariably finds something missing, lacking, overstressed or just plain wrong, because it was changed. When we read the book, we make the movie: we cast it, visualize it, control its pacing. We own it. Any other version of the book - say, Hollywood's - competes with our original experience and simply can't measure up. And this applies no matter how good the film, how bad the book. If there'd been a cheapo novel called Citizen Kane that preceded...
...would have the gigantic steel cojones to make a movie of Watchmen? Written by Alan Moore, illustrated by Dave Gibbons and colored by John Higgins, the serialized comic book came out in 1986. This was the pre-Internet age - Moore pounded out his scripts on a manual typewriter - when most comics had an afterlife only in the back-issue bins. Yet Watchmen quickly achieved status as the Grail, the Bible, the Citizen Bob Kane of its medium. (TIME canonized it as one of the 100 best novels since 1923.) And it continues to expand its reach. Last fall Gibbons...
...does that work out? It's great because we can both plan our time around our kids and what they're doing. If I need him to be home, for example, because I'm going on a book tour on Tuesday for a full month, I know he can be here to take the kids wherever they need to go and he can work out of the house if he needs...
...luxury. But again, if you really, really want to do it, if you really, really want to write, you will. Even now the kids still come first. I have managed to fly almost 24 hours straight in order to be home for a school play. I geared my entire book tour this year around an acappella concert. And you manage to do what you have to do in order to still be a good mom and be a good writer...
...carpool?Claire Messud: No, we haven’t.FM: Haven’t been bullied by the “Green is the new Crimson” initiative?James Wood: No, though sometimes I bicycle in, so that’s fairly green.2. FM: What kinds of books are your children reading right now?CM: Lucien is reading “Amos and Boris” [By William Steig], and we’ve read “Jack and the Bean Stalk”.JW: Our daughter is reading “Harry Potter?...