{"id":2249,"date":"2010-02-19T15:22:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T19:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2010-02-19T15:22:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T19:22:53","slug":"henning-mankell-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=2249","title":{"rendered":"Henning Mankell Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday\u00c2\u00a0morning I had the chance to listen to Henning Mankell on NPR’s Morning Edition<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 His latest novel doesn’t have his famous character, Inspector Kurt Wallander, in it.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, it’s mostly populated by women characters.\u00c2\u00a0 Mankell read the opening scene.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a desolate landscape and put a chill down this listener’s spine.<\/p>\n

It was really interesting to hear him discuss his next piece of fiction.\u00c2\u00a0 Based on a true story, the main character is a Swedish woman who travels to Africa and becomes an owner of a brothel.\u00c2\u00a0 But that’s all he would say.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s not uncommon to talk about the premise of a novel\u00c2\u00a0only to\u00c2\u00a0lose the steam and enthusiasm for it.\u00c2\u00a0 Even worse is to talk about it and let the unenthusiastic response of your listener discourage it from being written.\u00c2\u00a0 What comes across well in the execution is usually missing from the verbal premise of it.\u00c2\u00a0 Nick Hornby almost talked himself out of writing High Fidelity<\/em> when he realized how boring it sounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday\u00c2\u00a0morning I had the chance to listen to Henning Mankell on NPR’s Morning Edition.\u00c2\u00a0 His latest novel doesn’t have his famous character, Inspector Kurt Wallander, in it.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, it’s mostly populated by women characters.\u00c2\u00a0 Mankell read the opening scene.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a desolate landscape and put a chill down this listener’s spine. It was… Continue reading Henning Mankell Interview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1,54],"tags":[45,256,255],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-uncategorized","category-writing","tag-henning-mankell","tag-kurt-wallander","tag-the-man-from-beijing","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t