![]() So I learned about it first while working on Bel Canto. Manaus has this amazing opera house built by one of the "rubber barons" of the 19th century. GR: What inspired you to write about the Amazon in State of Wonder?ĪP: I was supposed to go to Manaus with Renée Fleming to see her sing there, but the event was cancelled and we couldn't go. The book I was obsessed with during adolescence was The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. ![]() They can't get to the rest of normal society. I think that's why I love to write books about people who are cut off in some way. I can throw 300 balls up in the air and catch 'em at the end. Around the time I was writing Bel Canto I thought, if everyone thinks I'm writing fairy tales, I'm going to write fairy tales! I think I did sort of turn in that direction.ĪP: What would it really mean to write fairy tales? Oddly, the way in which I think I write fairy tales I'm such a heavily plotted writer. ![]() Back when I was young, I thought I was writing these straight-up, realistic books, but the New York Times book review for The Patron Saint of Liars by Alice McDermott said that it was "a fairy tale, a delight." Since then, every book I published got viewed through that lens. ![]() ![]() Goodreads: State of Wonder reads like a fairy tale in some ways. ![]()
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