Laurie Frankel
Author Interview - Laurie Frankel
Author I draw inspiration from: So, so many of them. When I’m working on novels, it’s mostly novelists. Usually, I read a novel a week for exactly this reason — they’re inspiring, instructive, revelatory, stimulating, not to mention diverting. Also Shakespeare, always.
Author Interview - Laurie Frankel
Favorite place to read a book: The beach
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with: Lila Mae Watson from Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist. Is that how everyone answers this question? I mean, if you’re going to get stuck in an elevator, you’d want someone who could get you both out, right?
Author Interview - Laurie Frankel
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author: Honestly, some mornings I’m still not sure I want to be an author. And some mornings I’m still not sure I am an author. But my mother swears she knew when I was still a toddler.
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook: All of the above. With gusto.
The last book I read: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, coming January 2020. It’s amazing so get ready!
Author Interview - Laurie Frankel
Pen & paper or computer: Computer, definitely. I honestly don’t know how anyone does it any other way.
Book character I think I’d be best friends with: Rosemary Cooke, protagonist of Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, a book which changed my life and which should be read by everyone, whether or not you’re looking for a fictional BFF.
Author Interview - Laurie Frankel
If I wasn’t an author, I’d be a: Teacher. I taught for lots of years, and I both love it and miss it — not the grading but the students and the conversations and the work we’d do together.
Favorite decade in fashion history: 1920s. I have the hair for it.
Place I’d most like to travel: All of them. Truly.
My signature drink: Anything fizzy.
Favorite artist: Like, visual artist? Constantin Brancusi.
Number one on my bucket list: See above re: travel. I need to get started.
Anything else you'd like to add: Thanks so much for reading!
