Word: writing
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...book is driven by a rather unlovable character. How did you come up with Bunny? Very early on it was a script. I wrote it for [Australian film director] John Hillcoat, who wanted me to write about a traveling salesman. I watched this documentary about a 1960s traveling salesman and then I interviewed some of the guys. What emerged was a culture of alcoholism and drug taking and womanizing, and I made an individual character from that...
...Bunny thinks about is sex. Constantly. Is he supposed to be relatable? I wanted to write a character that men recognized, that was very important for me. I think I succeeded in doing that. That's not to say that all men are alcoholics or sexual predators, certainly not. But there is a way in which we view the world that is not unlike some of the stuff that goes through Bunny's head, a sort of running sexual commentary. Some men will admit this and some men won't. Women also like the character because I've revealed something...
...Lazarus being raised from the dead. And now this book also focuses on death. What about the experience of death interests you? Lazarus was sort of comic, I guess. He was brought back to life but he had no say in it. With Bunny, I didn't want to write a novel that's a normal redemptive story. I don't buy the whole redemption thing anyway. We're human and we are capable of love and destruction. These things are a part of what we are. Why do we need to be redeemed in the first place...
...really write the book's first chapter on your iPhone? I actually did. I was amazed it had this little keyboard in it. I'm a techno-moron and it had this keyboard that spellchecked as you wrote. It was a good way to start writing the novel because I wasn't taking it seriously, I was just checking out my phone. The rest I wrote by hand...
...alternate Thursdays, A. Patrick Behrer ’10 will write a column inspired by a 900-pound gorilla dedicated to discussing the less visible ways that environmental concerns enter our lives. An economics concentrator in Eliot House, he will present environmentalism less as an independent movement and more as a way of looking at everyday life...