'In my lifetime, I'd like to see a camera actually turn on,' the acclaimed author — who has two scripts in limbo — says of the adaptation process.
In Melissa Broder’s new novel, the protagonist is a novelist dealing with a father in the ICU and a husband with a chronic illness; she escapes to the parched California wilderness in search of figurative clarity and discovers a cactus with mythical powers.is what the author describes as a “sendup of auto-fiction,” a meditation on both her current ails and the literary form itself.
Does talking about the book, or knowing that people will be reading it, offer you any more of that forward propulsion? A lot of the emotions in the book are autobiographical, but what about the actual lost-in-the-desert element? Did you venture to Joshua Tree or anything similar to research? All of your past books have been optioned, and I believe they’re in different stages of adaptation? Claire Foy was in talks to star in. I’m curious what your relationship is to that process, how much you see it as important or superfluous.
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