Posts Tagged: The Interestings
The Works Behind the Work
Over at the New Yorker, Meg Wolitzer writes about the cultural influences that helped inform her novel The Interestings. They include Archie comics, folk music, and Michael Apted’s “Up” films”: A good chunk of what you need to know about the characters in the “Up” films is right there in their childhoods, and I suppose that’s true […]
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The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
The first 100 pages of Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings are just that: interesting, but short of compelling. In the late sixties, six teenagers meet at an arts camp named Spirit-In-The-Woods and coin themselves The Interestings, because in the insular world of a summer camp, everyone seems talented and interesting. We get to watch their friendships […]
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The Rumpus Conversation Between Jennifer Gilmore and Meg Wolitzer
Jennifer Gilmore and Meg Wolitzer interview each other about their new novels, and how to live deeply in your book to avoid living deeply in your own life.
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