Brendan O'Connor
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Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”
We were the old people we needed to be looked after.
Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”
But sure, look, we lean into it.
Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”
So you say there may only be one more novel.
Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”
Okay, so do you have to kind of say one more each time?
Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”
What would you do if you weren't doing it?
Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”
You do it every day, yeah?
Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”
Are you poking around at the next one already?
Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”
Yeah, you're right.
Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”
Don't.
Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”
But you're poking.
Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”
Okay.
Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”
Do they sometimes not work?
Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”
It must be hard.
Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”
If you put a good bit into it and then you have to tell yourself it's not working, that must be annoying, is it?
Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”
Really, yeah.
Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”
Might you throw away months of work sometimes?
Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”
Sure.
Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”
That's heartbreaking.
Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”
Because people are thinking if they lose an hour's work on a computer, like, they're going crazy.
Brendan O'Connor
Author, Elizabeth Strout: “A marriage can be a lonely place”
So you just sometimes have to take a hard decision.