American - Novelist | May 21, 1964 -
My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.
Maria Semple
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When I graduated high school, I was one of many English-majors-to-be traveling through Europe with a copy of 'Let's Go Europe' in one hand, 'Anna Karenina' in the other, a Eurail pass for a bookmark.
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'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' is an epistolary novel - one told in letters. I had no idea how much fun it would be, puzzling together the plot with letters and documents.
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The one constant in my life has been my love of books: reading them, thinking about them, talking about them, holding them, turning people on to new ones.
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'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' was surprisingly easy and fun to write because I was feeling such strong emotions.
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When I wrote for TV, I was always thinking in terms of character and story. After fifteen years, it became hard-wired in me.
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I must say, it was a lot easier writing novels than I thought it would be. I think it's because I'm a novelist at heart, and it took me a while to figure that out.
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Both 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' and my first novel, 'This One is Mine,' are pretty complex on a story level, and fun reads as a result.
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