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...preschool? But I looked at the research numbers, and now I'm confused again. Because 48% of stay-at-home moms send their 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds to preschool. Which is not that different a percentage from working moms, 53% of whom send their pre-Ks to preschool. This whole war can't be over that 5% difference...
...KS: It just depends on what country I'm in. I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England; and a thriller [author] here. I think of it as just literature. To Kill a Mockingbird - that's crime fiction. That's a murder story. Snow Falling on Cedars. Oliver Twist. What's more violent than a bludgeoned prostitute? A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer...
...KS: I just start thinking about different crimes that I've seen in the news, or that I know about from my childhood. This was a few years before me, but there was a woman named Barbara Jane Mackle, who was an heiress who was kidnapped and buried alive in Duluth, Georgia, which is about 40 minutes from where I grew up. The kidnappers were ransoming her. The FBI finally found this woman, but she was trapped for two or three days, buried alive with a pipe. That's something that's always terrified me, just the idea of being...
...KS: I like that she's not perfect. That's the one thing I would say makes her interesting. Maybe it's because I'm a southerner, but I'm interested in flawed characters. She's not always going to make the right decision; she makes mistakes sometimes. I think that's far more fascinating in literature than some kind of Superwoman, who goes around and plucks a pubic hair from a pillow, and says 'Ah, our offender is a right-handed Caucasian with a harelip.' She's never going to do that kind of thing. She's always going...
...KS: He's a lot like my dad. I love my dad to death, I think he's the best dad in the world, but I would probably kill myself if I was in a relationship with him, because he's just that type of guy. He's going to be thinking of himself first. But guys are raised to think that way, just like women are raised to kind of subvert their feelings. What I think of [Jeffrey] as is this kind of manly man, but he does have a sensitive side that he only shows to Sara...