![]() ![]() ![]() With both of my novels, I was pretty well able to predict ahead of time exactly what people wouldn't like. There are different things for each book - I'm not sure there's anything across the board. After that, I don't have any use for them.ĭo you have an idea of what people object to in general if they don’t like your writing? It's a little like getting your tarot read. ![]() The smart ones can be a bit of an indication of how the book will be perceived, how it might be reviewed. And yes, I occasionally will look at reader reviews, mostly in the days before a book is out and those are the only things up. Those last words actually originated with you, but were then echoed by Dwight Garner in a New York Times review that finished, “It’s a gut-punch that lands”, referring to both the quoted passage that precedes, and Music for Wartime as a whole.īefore we get into the less enthusiastic reactions to your work, let me ask: (i) do you consider yourself thick-skinned? (ii) do you check out reader reviews on Goodreads and Amazon? Rebecca’s been hailed with all the great words by all the great publications, and just to prove it I’ll put the following into quotes: “richly imagined”, “impressive”, “engrossing”, “inventive”, “playful and crisp and strangely elfin”. Today I’m with Rebecca Makkai, the author of three books to date: Music for Wartime (2015), The Hundred-Year House (2014) and The Borrower (2011), all from Viking. ![]()
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