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Rachel A. Levine
I have been writing since I was 11 years old. Naturally, reading was my favorite "activity." By age 12 I had decided I was going to read EVERY book in my small, local Brooklyn library! I started wi...vizualizați mai multeI have been writing since I was 11 years old. Naturally, reading was my favorite "activity." By age 12 I had decided I was going to read EVERY book in my small, local Brooklyn library! I started with the fiction. Reading randomly like this was and still is a terrific pleasure for me. Much later I got my MFA in fiction.
Some people said my work sounded as if it had been "translated." They even asked if English was my native language. Well....yes! But then again, being born and raised in Brooklyn, perhaps I did and still do speak a foreign language!
I think readers want to disappear into the world of a book. I know I do. When I write fiction, I hope to create a world worth escaping into. I try to create characters that are interesting, first and foremost. After that, I think readers are willing to stick around and see what happens, no matter what it is. I prefer to create worlds where people are smart and funny. I guess because those are the kinds of people I personally like to spend time with. Writing a novel takes a long time so my characters have to entertain me or, as The God of Fiction, I smite them!
In Brooklyn Valentine, Brooklyn itself is more or less a character. And the real characters are based on real people I have known growing up in Brooklyn.vizualizați mai puține