- feeds
- popular
- recent
- reader
- about
- story
- technologies
- what is rss
- connect
- dmca
- contact
- Feed Preview AoK Questions Answered
Since the point of the formula is whether it curves up like...t not want to make the math any scarier by including calculus?
That would be a question for Daniel Biss. ;)
https://onlyifyoufinishedkatherines.tumblr.com/post/45240479581
I’m not sure if I should ask this but were you, in any wa...ging genius. (did I get it right? XD) Thank you for this book.
I'm not positive, but I think I read CURIOUS INCIDENT after I wrote KATHERINES. But yeah, they're very similar in some ways, although Haddon chooses to tell the story from Christopher's point of ...
https://onlyifyoufinishedkatherines.tumblr.com/post/45240415898
Could you possibly expand on this quote: “You don’t rem...ppened,” because I found it super interesting and confusing.
Well, it's true. Memory shapes history. We like to think that we can observe or remember something "objectively," but there's no such thing as objectivity. Human memory is a flawed and eccentric ...
https://onlyifyoufinishedkatherines.tumblr.com/post/45240237962
Was Colin supposed to be a well liked character? I didn’t really like him while reading the book.
No. The great challenge of writing Katherines to me was how to write a likable comic novel about someone who isn't likable or particularly funny--at least not in straightforward ways. It's rea...
https://onlyifyoufinishedkatherines.tumblr.com/post/45239729892
as seen here in katherines and paper towns, you are very op...ed on subdivisions. what are your feelings about them and why?
I really hated subdivisions as a teenager because to me they represented sameness and the bloated, intellectually disengaged, wretchedly average 21st century America. I felt like all these iden...
https://onlyifyoufinishedkatherines.tumblr.com/post/45239330259
I don’t know if you’re aware, but the band Franz Ferdin... to Lindsey Wells and Franz Ferdinand’s grave in Katherines?
No it's just a completely crazy coincidence. (She was called that long before the song existed.)
https://onlyifyoufinishedkatherines.tumblr.com/post/34800407610
Hi John! Was Gutshot named after how Archduke Franz Ferdina...I was able to come up with “The Banana Ink Dances of Rue”.
I was conscious of all the people who are or feel gutshot when writing Katherines, yes. (I think a lot of us, when we are heartbroken or stricken with grief feel pain in our guts. That pain is as...
https://onlyifyoufinishedkatherines.tumblr.com/post/34800355385
My problem with the relationship formula is that I don’t ...ariables would have to be decided by an objective third party.
Yeah, no, the formula is crazy. It's the work of a deluded madman desperate to find some intellectual path out of a mostly non-intellectual problem.
https://onlyifyoufinishedkatherines.tumblr.com/post/31703423163
There’s apparently a pretty common idea that Lindsay’s ...inking at any time “boy this cave is kinda like a vagina”?
That's such a good observation. Was I conscious of this? I don't think so (although I might've been; it was written a long time ago). But of course intent is mostly irrelevant. It's a good me...
https://onlyifyoufinishedkatherines.tumblr.com/post/31703261910
In the cave, why did you decide have only have dialogue? Was there any meaning behind it?
Yeah, the idea was to reflect the darkness by removing all description. So you're seeing what the characters are seeing: nothing.
https://onlyifyoufinishedkatherines.tumblr.com/post/31702840666
Have you read David Malouf’s novel ‘Ransom’? I ask be...ut the role of storytelling and narratives. …just curious :)
Those are indeed VERY different books (for one thing, Ransom is better), but yes, I've read it. It's great, and yes, as you say, both novels are concerned with how and why we tell stories.
https://onlyifyoufinishedkatherines.tumblr.com/post/31702729248
Was there any special reason why did you choose the name Colin'
He's constantly callin' his ex-girlfriend. That's about it. (The word singleton means a person who is not a conjoined twin. So you and I and almost very human alive on the planet are singleto...
https://onlyifyoufinishedkatherines.tumblr.com/post/31702462599
When I read Abundance of Katherines and Colin mentioned the...se you had felt it before? Or did it come from somewhere else?
I wrote all these stories in high school and college in which I called that gnawing stomach pain "the night feeling," because for most of my life I experienced it primarily at night. (The feeli...
https://onlyifyoufinishedkatherines.tumblr.com/post/31702356854
Out of all your books - or out of ANY BOOK AT ALL really - ...not the right word, but there is a reason I’m not a writer.)
To be frank with you, I think it appeals to teachers and librarians because it is the way to teach and share my work that involves the least sex.
https://onlyifyoufinishedkatherines.tumblr.com/post/30267144632
Towards the end of the book, Colin thinks about how he want...ng me how smart I was. Did you ever have a similar experience?
I think most people have had that experience, whether it's about academic performance or baseball or writing or cheerleading or whatever. I think in some ways that's what adolescence is--the e...
https://onlyifyoufinishedkatherines.tumblr.com/post/30267033081
You’ve said that you can’t recall whether this or that ... novel. Does that mean you rarely or never re-read your books?
I never re-read my books. (I re-read both Katherines and Paper Towns years ago for movie things, but I would never re-read them for fun.) There are several reasons for this: 1. The world con...
https://onlyifyoufinishedkatherines.tumblr.com/post/30266777340
You’ve undoubtedly already received this question, but ho... format in which you wrote AoK? I found it really interesting.
The structure of the book was all about trying to deconstruct what makes a story work, what organizational tactics help a narrative make sense in the mind of one's audience. This is something C...
https://onlyifyoufinishedkatherines.tumblr.com/post/30266381505
Hi, I had asked this on your main blog but now I see that t... try a lot of different ways before you found one that worked?
I've read a lot of stories that used similar constructions to get across an idea of physical remove or sensory deprivation (see Kiss of the Spider Woman, for instance), and I think it's a nice w...
https://onlyifyoufinishedkatherines.tumblr.com/post/30265590159
When you were writing it, did you come up with personalitie...ferent Katherines that Colin dated, or were they just numbers?
Not really. Very early on in the process of writing the book, I wrote a draft of the long list that Colin finally shares with Lindsey when he's learned some things about how to organize facts int...
https://onlyifyoufinishedkatherines.tumblr.com/post/30265148636
Why did you decide to call Chase, Fulton, and Colin by JATT...as it to emphasize how Colin and Hassan see them as different?
Maybe. I never thought of it in precisely that way, but that makes a lot of sense. One usually doesn't associate acronyms and initialisms with other humans, so it is a way of expressing the dista...
https://onlyifyoufinishedkatherines.tumblr.com/post/29557865507