My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.
Poppy Z. BriteAll at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someoneโs face, just as surely as putting a hammer through someoneโs skull. The power to make another person crazy with pleasure instead of fear and pain, to have every cell in another personโs body at your thrall.
Poppy Z. BriteIn France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.
Poppy Z. BriteI certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.
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