In the final part of my Yanagihara trilogy from 2014, we continue to discuss her astonishing, unnerving debut The People in the Trees. ----more----Yanagihara begins by answering my question about whether her fiction sets out to astonish or unnerve. She continues by addressing at least some of the following:
- asking questions in art that she can't answer in life
- her (former) day job at Conde Nast Traveler
- about the advantages of a work-writing balance
- about the research needed to write The People in the Trees
- science and animal research
- Yanagihara's father and the evolution of science
- immigration and American science
- reactions from family and colleagues to The People in Trees
- 'I dont love the book either...'
- a preview of her next book, A Little Life
The interview ends with me gushing and the sounds of a hotel preparing for lunch. A new four part podcast about A Little Life will be released later this month.
