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...AH: My influences writing this thesis have been Henry James, Aimee Bender, Haruki Murakami, Marguerite Duras, Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Russian patricidal literature (my father thinks he’s going to be the “bad guy” in the story, but I don’t think there’ll be any daddy-killing...
...AH: My older brother was very much into Dostoevsky and was always pushing him onto me when I was a kid and making parallels between the literary characters and our own family members. The problem is, as I became obsessed with these family stories like O’Neill’s A Long Day’s Journey into Night, for example, or Terry Zwigoff’s documentary about Robert Crumb and his family, all the characters became blurred and sometimes it’s hard to remember if Smerdyakov really is my brother...
...AH: One author I like says that the emotions are autobiographical but the events are not. When my friends read my stories they always think the main character is me—they think that my self-absorption is taken to a new level and my stories are peopled by multiple versions of me talking to each other. But this is not true. Well it’s less true these days. My writing will inevitably be personal because it’s either something I experienced, or someone has related to me, or how I envision or interpret...
...AH: I get writer’s block not so much because of lack of inspiration or material. I have a little notebook full of ideas and sentences that I haven’t used yet. I get writer’s block more from fear, from not feeling up to the challenge of getting into my character’s heads and emotions. So instead I’ll stare into space, dye my hair, eat something fatty and spicy. I can’t find enough big chunks of time to write these days...
...AH: I have a first draft done, it’s around 200 pages. Parts will be cut and added, the plot will change, especially if I continue to move further into the relations between the family members. One major character needs a total overhaul, but I’m still casting. I’m still waiting to meet someone who I think can really give me what I need for that character...