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Since childhood, I've been a fan of mysteries - 'Nancy Drew' lovers unite! - but 'Vertigo' struck me as an entirely new take on the genre.

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As we know all too well, our early years are formative in ways it can takes us a lifetime to grasp. Those years leave deep marks; in that way, the stakes of childhood are inherently very high.

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Here's something a little more personal: In my teens, I was having a hard time and ended up in a therapy group of young women, some of whom had endured terrible childhood traumas.

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With both novels and short stories, I think a lot in terms of character arcs, when it comes to endings.

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If I leave the fictional world for too long, it's a bit like stepping through a portal, entering another reality, and then not knowing how to get back to where you were before.

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Culturally, there is often the expectation that women should be repelled by anything too ugly, too violent.

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I think my favorite horror films are really grounded in human psychology, which is to say I think through sort of extreme dislocations of reality.

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We write in a culture that favors the heft of the novel. Better still if the novel in question is large enough to be wielded interchangeably as a doorstop and a weapon.

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Sometimes we talk about memory as though it's firm and fixed, but of course, memory is highly fluid and subjective and thus highly subject to manipulation.

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I'm such a first-person writer.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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