6/23/2023 0 Comments James hynes writing great fiction![]() She was in many ways an inheritor of Joan Didion’s style and subject matter a writer who herself covered the Manson murders in 1969 and who was also drawn to ‘extremes’. The novel was a New York Times bestseller and one of the most talked-about books of the year: an eerie depiction of one lost girl’s Californian summer in 1969 as she finds herself embroiled with a group that may or may not be inspired by the infamous Manson Family. ![]() It was The Girls which firmly established Cline as one of the most exciting new literary talents. ![]() She is softly spoken and pensive – in a good way – good-naturedly apologising for not being in the sunnier climes of her native California a state she may be perennially associated with, thanks to her 2016 debut The Girls and her follow-up collection of short stories, Daddy, both of which delve into the icy shadows of the golden state – the extremes. “Extreme situations or extreme characters, because part of me just wants to know, what is it like? What is the human experience of that like in that moment?”Ĭline is video calling me from Brooklyn where she is visiting a friend. “I think I'm really drawn to extremes as a writer,” says Emma Cline. Author Emma Cline on her long-awaited new novel Credit Ricky Saiz ![]()
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