Interviewer: John what does Thanksgiving mean to you? John K: You know, my Thanksgiving wishes are pretty typical. Hope everyone has good health, a few successes, that failures are out-weighed by positive things… I doubt my feelings are any different from any other folks. I’m also willing to be mundane — hoping the Patriots beat the Packers on Sunday, except I know that will disappoint my friend Dave Maraniss, a wonderful journalist, writer, sometime Wisconsin resident and life-long Packers fan, so my selfish wishes are really fairly hostile. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to have Thanksgiving dinner with all the characters in my books. Would I seat the bad guys on one side, and the good guys on the other? Or should I mix them up? Of course, if I did that, would they share secrets — like make suggestions, find common grounds, deliver advice? Can you imagine one character — say Student #5 from my forthcoming novel The Dead Student leaning across the table and whispering to Michael and Linda, the bad guys from What Comes Next, “I know how you could have gotten away with it…” only to be interrupted by the three Reds from Red 1-2-3 in unison, saying, “No you don’t.” I mean, would dinner devolve into a lot or arguing back and forth? Would there be insults and anger? Would one character scoff at another, while a third shouted criticisms? Would there be resentment over who lived on the pages and who died? Would the turkey get sliced and the cranberry sauce passed around? Or would it be thrown at each other? And what about the carving knife — would someone want to use that on another character? You know, the more I think about this — the more I like the idea. I guess — at the end, after pumpkin pie, ice cream and coffee and before yet another football game starts up on the television — it would pretty much be like a typical family Thanksgiving. Best, John K
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:08:19 +0000
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