When you're spending that much time by yourself in your car looking at landscapes, it's desolate. Most of the other people around you are invisible in their own cars. You're driving past houses where maybe once in a while somebody is out, but that's about it. So I was interested in that aesthetic and I decided I wanted to write an apocalyptic narrative, but the more I thought of it, it seemed bizarre and untenable to me to pick one, so I just didn't.
Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called "realism" is actua… - Lucy Corin
Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called "realism" is actua…
- Lucy Corin
Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe. - Lucy Corin
Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe.
When you're spending that much time by yourself in your car looking at landscapes, it's desolate. Most of the other people around you are invisible i… - Lucy Corin
When you're spending that much time by yourself in your car looking at landscapes, it's desolate. Most of the other people around you are invisible i…
I don't want to write the thing that I am a consumer of when I'm unconscious. I want to write the thing that makes me contend with the thing that I'v… - Lucy Corin
I don't want to write the thing that I am a consumer of when I'm unconscious. I want to write the thing that makes me contend with the thing that I'v…
There were a lot of apocalypses that didn't make it into this assemblage because they didn't suit the world. And defining that world and figuring out… - Lucy Corin
There were a lot of apocalypses that didn't make it into this assemblage because they didn't suit the world. And defining that world and figuring out…
It's a matter of resisting what something made you feel before. And resisting that as a consumer is not easy. I know it isn't for me, and not just wh… - Lucy Corin
It's a matter of resisting what something made you feel before. And resisting that as a consumer is not easy. I know it isn't for me, and not just wh…
To make a beautiful piece means you have really witnessed it and really made decisions about it. - Lucy Corin
To make a beautiful piece means you have really witnessed it and really made decisions about it.
For a really long time [before writing the novel], I was watching a lot of serial killer movies and I started to wonder if this was a trend and if ot… - Lucy Corin
For a really long time [before writing the novel], I was watching a lot of serial killer movies and I started to wonder if this was a trend and if ot…
Follow Through is elegant, sure footed, smart—a nest of sticks that won’t stay sticks—a nest of sticks that snowballs—scary and marvelous. - Lucy Corin
Follow Through is elegant, sure footed, smart—a nest of sticks that won’t stay sticks—a nest of sticks that snowballs—scary and marvelous.
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