Jason Nickey
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Jeremy Robert Johnson:
So I've read ADA, WLIY, and SC, and loved them all. I have to say though, the story of your that haunted me the most was 'States Of Glass'. The story was very different from your style, but just as effective. What was your inspiration for that story? What made you go in that direction?
Jeremy Robert Johnson
Hi, Jason,
"States of Glass" had a pretty direct inspiration--I was headed north on I-5 toward a business conference for a bank I was working for at the time. There was a traffic jam and I slammed on my brakes and missed having my own under ride on the back of a semi truck trailer by about two inches.
I'd also recently lost a family member and noticed that the grieving process, while supposedly having stages, kind of just wallops you into a hot mess. Nothing makes a lot of sense for a while.
So you combine those two things with the fact that I was reading a lot of Zoetrope-style literary fiction at the time, and there you go.
And thanks, by the way, for the kind words about my work and the question.
"States of Glass" had a pretty direct inspiration--I was headed north on I-5 toward a business conference for a bank I was working for at the time. There was a traffic jam and I slammed on my brakes and missed having my own under ride on the back of a semi truck trailer by about two inches.
I'd also recently lost a family member and noticed that the grieving process, while supposedly having stages, kind of just wallops you into a hot mess. Nothing makes a lot of sense for a while.
So you combine those two things with the fact that I was reading a lot of Zoetrope-style literary fiction at the time, and there you go.
And thanks, by the way, for the kind words about my work and the question.
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