I guess we should say that we are on my couch. A few weeks ago, before her newest novel hits shelves, Emma Cline and I got together and sat on her couch to talk about it, and our love for books featuring deranged characters.- LOUISE BONNETĮMMA CLINE: Thank you for talking with me. She is willing to let the winding undercurrent of life and friendship be what matters, and so it is thrilling to know and read her. Her new novel The Guest displays exactly these seemingly separate facets: Emma’s razor-sharp power of observation and an ability to synthesize feelings and emotions mixed with a deep well of empathy and understanding that makes her a unique force. She lets me become comfortable and, after I have said everything there is to say about the return of the short Ugg boot, I remember that she was just awarded an O.Henry Prize and I am surprised to realize that I always feel free to be as stupid or as sharp as I want to be with her, and that she will welcome both. Of course, being left only with the undercurrent, the meaning becomes at the same time so clear and so alien that it’s thrilling. I was thinking that Emma Cline’s writing reminded me of Cat Power’s cover of “Satisfaction,” where she removed the parts that at first glance would seem like the important ones, the bits that make the song pop.
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