Deborah Treisman interviews the writer Fiona McFarlane about “Hostel,” her story from the March 11, 2024, issue of The New Yorker.
The first story in the collection, which is called “Tourists,” was also the first one I wrote. It’s about two people who visit an Australian forest specifically because a serial killer buried the bodies of his victims there, and that was when I started writing about how people consume, and can come to feel intimately involved in, stories about serial murder.
The book isn’t about why serial killers do what they do; it’s about the ripple effects in the lives of people who are one or two or five or fifty steps removed from those horrors. That’s why we meet characters like his former neighbors , and, in other stories, a detective many years after she helped to catch him, the actor playing him in a limited series, the hosts of a podcast about him, and, in “Hostel,” a couple who have the most glancing encounter with one of his victims.
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