Just before the publication of her first book, the author talked to us about drawing inspiration from the country houses in the novels of Sebald and Ishiguro.
INMAN: “Anybody who’s ever read a book on how to write fiction knows that a bath mat belongs in a story only if it indicates some telling detail about the protagonist or if it’s to be used as a murder weapon. This approach to narrative is not universal, but it is familiar. We might observe that it is an ethos of annihilation. It eradicates the intrinsic value of everything beyond the main characters, so it’s a nice fit for a species bent on the destruction of everything outside ourselves.
INMAN: Speaking of dark history that doesn’t take away beauty, should we talk about Julian? I wanted to strangle him. LAI: I love books that are written in the diary form, or they’re epistolary in some ways. There’s a kind of open-endedness and an unfinished quality to them that I really appreciate. And I love this idea of the diary as a way of writing your way out of despair. I love, and how it actually subverts the idea of a notebook as a place of salvation. I lovedwas also in the form of a diary, and that’s very dystopian but it’s kind of likein that it’s about community and loneliness.
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