After 30 years, readers have racked up quite a few questions for Donna Tartt, author of 'The Secret History.' Tartt answers a few of them, sourced from Read With Jenna members and JennaBushHager herself.
— and ever since, fans have been looking for a follow-up that delivers the same intoxicating blend of mystery, mythology, tight-knit friend groups and unreliable narrators.
We are forever looking for a book like 'The Secret History.' Are there any books you recommend as follow-ups? It’s too bad that people mostly seem to know the film version of "The Talented Mr Ripley" because the novel, by Patricia Highsmith, differs in key respects and is and far superior. "Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice" by JF Martel had not yet been published when I wrote"The Secret History" but it articulates very clearly some of my ideas about art as a meeting place for ideas otherwise inexpressible and a conduit to realities beyond the human: “True beauty is not pretty. It is a tear in the facade of the everyday, a sudden revelation of the forces seething beneath the surface of things.
What inspired the names of the characters? We couldn’t help but notice Charles and Camilla — like the current king and queen of England — feature prominently.
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