After the release of her new novel 'The Guest,' EmmaCline and her friend, the artist Louise Bonnet got together on her couch to talk about their love for books featuring deranged characters. ⛓️:
I was thinking that Emma Cline’s writing reminded me of Cat Power’s cover of “Satisfaction,” where she removed the parts that at first glance would seem like the important ones, the bits that make the song pop. Of course, being left only with the undercurrent, the meaning becomes at the same time so clear and so alien that it’s thrilling. Our friendship is also a bit like this.
CLINE: I can imagine the audiobook version might be good. I feel like it’s one of those books that’s always at somebody’s parents’ house or vacation house, like the pulpy kind of paper you can put a fingernail through easily, with the pictures in the middle. CLINE: Yeah, yeah. I feel like Philip Seymour Hoffman in the movie whenever I get a bad sunburn, unfortunately.CLINE: But what’s so weird about that book and Patricia Highsmith and why she does this.
BONNET: Yeah, because this book is basically a very slow horror movie. Like, if you remove all of the tropes from them, I would say that horror movies are actually like books. You know something terrible is going to happen and how it’s leading there and then the clown comes out and you’re like “Ehh, whatever.” And I feel like that’s what you do.BONNET: Oh, yes. I remember you hate them! You can’t stand them!CLINE: Yeah, it’s much worse to watch it.
BONNET: I’m not really sure. I think, unlike you, I don’t really know what it will end up like. I think you do know, so then you can work the tensions in between.BONNET: I don’t really know what’s going to happen. I know if I get bored, or if I feel like it’s too obvious, whichboring, that’s when I need to change it. I think I’ve done it often enough that I can pinpoint at what moment I get bored.
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