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Andrew K. Stone was born in Rhode Island and studied Communications and English at Boston University. He worked for NBC Television in New York and sold a script to the hit comedy The Golden Girls while living in Los Angeles. Stone's first novel, All Flowers Die, established him as a bright new light in America's literary scene. He is married and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Disappearing Into View is your second novel. Your
characters have been so realistic and your dialogue has been described as gritty
and street-wise. Has this always been your writing style or something you have
honed and perfected over the years?
I'm always working towards perfecting my ability to create
rich, believable characters. For me to get the most enjoyment from a book -
whether I'm reading or writing - the characters have to be real people. Often I
find that "beautiful starlets" and "handsome leading men"
can be too cartoonish, too one-dimensional. I'm more interested in the types of
people we meet everyday. A story is much more engaging when told by a real
person - for instance, the entire impact of the plot and theme will be much
stronger if the narrator reminds you of the guy next door rather than Arnold
Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger is superman and anything he does is automatically
going to be fantastic. However, if the everyday guy down the street can do the
same fantastic thing - tell the same story as Arnold Schwarzenegger -- the
implications of the story become much more vivid. This type of realism will
always bring the story to a higher level.
What would you say has been the ...
Dave King holds a BFA in painting and film from Cooper Union and an MFA in writing from Columbia University. King's debut novel, The Ha-Ha, was named one of the best books of 2005 by The Christian Science Monitor&#... (more)
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Disappearing Into View
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Janni Visman studied film at the London College of printing and mixed media at the Slade School of Fine Art. She is the author of two novels, Sex Education and Yellow. She lives in London. (more)
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Disappearing Into View
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Yellow
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