Andrew Sean Greer
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Jun
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I think it was when I first started working at this rural writer's residency and the septic tank overflowed on my first day, which is something that happens in the novel, and I understood that I had to deal with it.
And that was also, I think, the first moment I really became a grown-up at age 46 when I thought, there's no one to deal with this.
Yeah.
Except the Baronessa was happy to help me deal with it.
And I realized that there were depths to her that I had not expected.
And so I started taking notes, not on her, on...
the little details of life that surprised me every day or meeting a porcupine or what we had for dinner.
And when I decided I wanted to write a kind of charm novel, a kind of lovely escape novel, I thought, oh, I have all this experience and I can invent some more.
I can't think of a lot of American charm novels.
Comic novels, yes.
But something that touches on real human pain lightly, but with a sense of humor and absurdity, has its own absurd logic.
And I think of the Mitford novels or a comedy like Cold Comfort Farm or Graham Greene's Entertainments.
that are not absolute farce.
People die, hard things happen, but you move on and everything is a sort of funny story.
Or especially, I had in mind, Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals, which is not a novel, but which is certainly an exaggeration.
Well, I mean, maybe it's part of my own personality.
That I find myself not quite understanding what's going on.
Or at least I understand that I'm the thing that's wrong in most situations.
And I'm willing to change.
But it is, of course, I exaggerate that property in the books.
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