'Everyone I met was in incredible pain and that they were sure that there was no one who could help them, certainly not the government.' Christopher Bollen talks to the Pulitzer Prize-winning author AndrewSeanGreer about his second novel 'Less is Lost.'
Good news! Less is not lost! Or, rather, Andrew Sean Greer’s brilliant breakout out of novel, the hilarious and heartbreaking, released back in 2017 and which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize, now has a sequel, which, thankfully, is just as hilarious and heartbreaking and wise and shot through with such vivid, beautiful imagery, that it manages to stay true to the wonder of the first novel while venturing out with our gently graying middle-aged protagonist through the wilds of contemporary...
GREER: Since I live out West, a road trip is sometimes necessary just to get somewhere. I know how to do it. You have to set rules or else it gets too boring. You can only stay in a motel with a neon sign. I took a road trip with my mother where the rule was to stay in a crazy place every night. So we stayed in a teepee and a hippie earth ship outside of Taos. It drove her crazy.
BOLLEN: I can’t make any sense of it. Why everything seems to be intentionally trying to make people’s lives worse. But the American that Less discovers in your novel does seem to me ultimately loving and affectionate. It’s interesting, there are so many novels in this novel—in, fact. It’s a comedy, a picaresque, a love story, and adventure, of coming-to-terms with age, and for me it’s also a very meaningful reflection on different generations of gay men.
GREER: It was so not. And I’m like, you just wait around a couple minutes, it won’t feel like a privilege. And here we are in Florida. It’s starting again. It’ll all turn around soon. BOLLEN: I want to ask you about comedy. Of the course of your career, you’ve written novels in so many different veins, most of them more serious in toneare comedic. Do you think you are, at heart, a comedic writer? Does humor come naturally to you when you sit down with a blank page?
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