Teddy Wayne

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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing · June Bonus Episode · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

There's a courtroom sequence.

There's a police detective sequence, a procedural part.

And then I'd say the last fifth of it really is this kind of hybrid of the two.

It's now mashing the two parts together, the literary and thriller, and creating, I hope, a suspenseful ending.

that is really based around the character psychology still.

So the book is also something of a commentary on the state of publishing in America, perhaps worldwide as well, in that the literary novel is losing its influence.

I don't think anyone could really argue the opposite.

It just does not have the same cultural gravity it had

even 10 years ago, certainly not 20, certainly not 40 or 50 years ago, where the novel was the center of a lot of discussion about discourse.

And now it's shifted to TV and movies to an extent, but even that's gone away.

Or it's shifted even more just to online videos and so on.

This is a

a very self-conscious, metafictional look at what that's done.

And the book itself is something of a self-reflexive interrogation of that idea, in that the cover looks, as you saw, very much like a kind of like airport-y thriller, something of a 1990s movie, perhaps starring Rebecca DeMonaire or something like that.

But it's doing that with a slight wink and a nod, because it's, I hope, more than that, too.

Some might disagree, but it's also the way you can get a book read these days, sadly.

And I don't think it's like a cynical move on my part as the author so much as an acknowledgement that this is what people are reading now.

And what does it say about the culture that this is what we're reading?

audience the pure thriller audience is is not my audience yet at least and my publisher is certainly trying to make a push for that i went to something called thriller fest last week they sent me to thriller fest in new york city last week and it was a very different world from what i'm used to the writers were all different the audience is all different the things they talk about are very different from what i would see at a more literary minded festival

So I'm not there yet, and I don't think I'll ever get really there because it's not the way I read books or write books, certainly.

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