Sometimes you have to repeat the same story a lot, and questions are the same, but I don’t mind it. Obviously you do that, too, in your novels. I don’t know the clubs very well. Meanwhile, he quit the summertime twilight of Berlin for ''duller'', Ivy League Princeton, bought an English Tudor-style home, the first bit of real estate he could afford, and with his artist wife, Karen Yamauchi, guided their daughter, Georgia, into her tweens. Even though many people think of marriage, “Well, its time has passed.

LEWIS: What was your family like and your life like growing up there?

They certainly go together when I examine my own behavior and the behavior of those people I know best. Nobody could ever accuse Jeffrey Eugenides of rushing to print.

Sometimes, your stories leave me with a cliff hanger, and sometimes your stories just leap off the page and punch me in the gut.

There are snowstorms. EUGENIDES: I think there’s a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college. The redundant manuscript was filed away carefully in a drawer for another day the author thinks will never come, the detritus of a diligent mind that writes to business hours, clocking off for lunch and dinner. LEWIS: I don’t know what kind of actor you were, but for me what it means to be an actor is to have a sensitivity toward other people’s perspectives, and to be able to get inside another head or universe and create from that place.

EUGENIDES: I think 15 or 16 years? So the little part of me that’s an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

The Marriage Plot experimentally attempts to map human consciousness and light Leonard's disintegrating mind.

Many years pass before I do it. But, you don’t have the liberty to meander in a short story.

From its opening page, scanning Madeleine's dorm library - Dickens, Wharton, Trollope, Eliot next to course texts - Eugenides signals The Marriage Plot is more than a page-turning drama; it's a meta-fictional exploration of the art of storytelling. The book's title is taken from the literary term describing novels in which the plot is driven by the courtship rituals of two characters, with marriage and domestic bliss the desired endgame. That was the intellectual idea: to write a modern marriage plot, one that would be true for people—and especially women—living today. EUGENIDES: I was born and raised in Detroit, and then right outside, in Grosse Pointe. What happened? Do you still feel like you have to have the same elements in there? I could have written a couple hundred pages about those characters, but I decided just to tell a certain portion of the story, just the spine of their lives, to try to suggest their entire lives. How do you decide what is too much toying around with form and what is too little?

You have to telegraph, in a reader’s mind, where things are going, even though the story may be ending. The main character’s name is Christian, and when he gets into a bad place, he goes into a “slough of despond.” It’s when you’re despondent. And yet I was more interested in her story—it seemed less confining to me than the original book that I’d thought about. There are a few reasons this might happen: To request an unblock, please fill out the form below and we will review it as soon as possible. He edited a collection of short stories ruminating on the fidelity of love and wrote a couple of his own along the way. You can certainly know what someone's interests are. I don’t publish that often, so I’m not the kind of person who’s tuckered out by it all the time. What’s the use of it?” it operates in our heads as a kind of ideal—looking for the person who is going to be the one. As much as he admires the great purveyors of the marriage plot such as Austen, James and the Brontes, it was not Eugenides's aim to rewrite the 19th-century novel. EUGENIDES: Yeah. Trust him, he said, he had tried.

|, You’re exceptionally well-known for your novels, but you’ve been a really prolific short story writer for decades now. What it is not, Eugenides sighs with an edge of impatience creeping into his otherwise soft-spoken voice over the phone from Princeton, is a campus novel.

But Eugenides is no revolutionary and Madeleine speaks for the ''neighbourhood friendly hybridist'' when she nominates order and clarity as virtuous qualities in a book. Our summer 2007 Oprah's Book Club pick, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, grabs you from the first line: "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974." Little by little I got a clearer conception about the book and proceeded. ''The other book truly felt old-fashioned; it felt insular,'' Eugenides says. Dylan Sprouse Returns to the Hotel Suite—This Time, in a Pink Dress, Sway House Demands Your Attention, for Better or Worse, Matilda De Angelis on Her First Onscreen Kiss—with Nicole Kidman, “It’s Going to Be Mad”: Anya Taylor-Joy Gets Back to Work, Reuben Selby and Umar ElBably Reshape the Form of Masculinity, Back to the Future with Alaska Thunderfuck and the DJs Ivan and Peter, Michelangelo Signorile on the Perils of Complacency and “Victory Blindness”, The Poet Terrance Hayes Says Hope, Like Faith, Has Little to Do with Reason. A third-party browser plugin, such as Ghostery or NoScript, is preventing JavaScript from running. I think most people are flawed and have moments of terrible selfishness, and often they’re guilty about these things and they try to fix them.

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