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Madeline Miller:
Is there a genre that you haven't yet written that you'd like to write?
Madeline Miller
Before I wrote The Song of Achilles (which I consider some mixture of mythological realism, literary adaptation and literary fiction), I used to write memoir and modern realist fiction. I would love to return to those down the line--though likely not anytime soon! For my next novel, I am mulling over two stories, one inspired by Vergil's Aeneid and one by Shakespeare's Tempest, both of which keep me in the same basic area as The Song of Achilles and Circe.
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Lindz
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Madeline Miller:
I absolutely LOVE "The Song of Achilles". It instantly became my favorite book! I was wondering about something. In an interview about the book, you said that you spent 5 years creating the first draft, then you scrapped it and started again. Why did you scrap the first draft? And did you completely delete it, or is there still a copy of it lurking somewhere? Thank you so much for writing such a beautiful book!
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