American novelist and short story writer Lorrie Moore on idiosyncratic book titles, her preoccupation with grief, and Donald Trump’s refusal to go away
As the years pile on, you just have to go into denial, you have to always think, ‘Of course there’s another book!’ And maybe it will be your best bookNever mind. Moore is “not that fond” of doing interviews in person – “I’m more articulate in writing than I am in speaking” – but she is open and friendly in conversation. Her new novel is her first book of fiction since 2014, and her first novel since 2009.
“It was my working title, because I wanted to write about people who were uneasy in life itself. I thought it sounded like a blues song, and I kind of fell in love with the phrasing of it. And I did have to struggle with my publisher. My editor said, ‘You’ve got to shorten it, it’s too long!’ She said, ‘I let you have [Moore’s 1994 novel] Who Will Run the Frog Hospital, but I cannot –.’ And I said, ‘You didlet me have Who Will Run the Frog Hospital! I had to talk you into that.
“There are lots of connections between those two sections,” she says, “that you might not feel right away but ideally, you get to the end of the book and start to feel them more. Some people start the book and are very confused. But confusion is also part of a legitimate response!” “And of course the John Wilkes Booth thing is the whole country trying to keep something alive: the Confederacy. Which returns in 2016, with the election of Trump.”Ah yes. The novel is set in 2016, with much talk of Trump and Clinton. I thought we were done with asking US novelists about him, but why is it that he seems to keep coming back like a bad penny?
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