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Laura van den Berg
Laura van den Berg
American Writer
Born: 1983
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Whether it's via the monstrous or the paranormal, horror actually can really get at some of the most fundamental human questions. Laura van den Berg
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I think my favorite horror films are really grounded in human psychology, which is to say I think through sort of extreme dislocations of reality. Laura van den Berg
Reality Think Films Extreme Say Favorite Horror Horror Films Through Sort Human Psychology Which Really Grounded
I love creating mysteries, but I am terrible at solving them. Laura van den Berg
Love Mysteries Solving Terrible Am Them Creating
Florida is a most unusual place. It can feel at once stifling and like anything is possible there. Laura van den Berg
Once Possible Feel Like Most Unusual Stifling Anything Anything Is Possible Place Florida
Unlike a novel, where you expect a different kind of arc that leaves us with a somber sense of resolution, I think a story in some ways as like a train window: being able to watch the landscape pass for a certain amount of time. And then your stop arrives, and you have to leave. Laura van den Berg
Time You Sense Think Unlike Ways Kind Arc Able Somber Some Window Like Pass Leave Leaves Train Expect Stop Being Where Different Story Different Kind Then Us Certain Landscape Your Novel Amount Watch Resolution
I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of ways, they're detective stories. Laura van den Berg
You Down Think Strip Ways Detective Detective Stories Some Most Lot Stories Really Novels Compelling
As we know all too well, our early years are formative in ways it can takes us a lifetime to grasp. Those years leave deep marks; in that way, the stakes of childhood are inherently very high. Laura van den Berg
Too Early Years Our Way Ways Marks Those High Lifetime Takes Know Well Leave Years Very Childhood Formative Stakes Us Inherently Deep Grasp Early
Since childhood, I've been a fan of mysteries - 'Nancy Drew' lovers unite! - but 'Vertigo' struck me as an entirely new take on the genre. Laura van den Berg
Me Mysteries Drew Entirely Struck Take Since New Nancy Genre Been Vertigo Childhood Fan Lovers Unite
When I'm working on a short story, I could duck into a bathroom at a crowded party and write a scene, which is to say I can work in a very incremental way. Laura van den Berg
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I'm pretty sure that I've never confessed in an interview my weakness for McDonald's Filet-O-Fish. The cheese is fake. Who knows what that 'fish' really is. It is gross. It is amazing. Laura van den Berg
Cheese Amazing Interview Weakness Pretty Never Knows Sure Fake Fish McDonald Really Gross Who
As a reader, I appreciate a world that feels unsettled and also visceral, inhabitable, so that's a quality I try and bring to my own work. In this way, dislocation and precision make total sense to me as a unit. Laura van den Berg
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Sometimes we talk about memory as though it's firm and fixed, but of course, memory is highly fluid and subjective and thus highly subject to manipulation. Laura van den Berg
Memory Sometimes Fluid Though About Firm Thus Highly Talk Course Subject Subjective Fixed Manipulation
Like many artists, I have issues with anxiety and depression, so I try to live in a way that supports my mental health. Laura van den Berg
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We write in a culture that favors the heft of the novel. Better still if the novel in question is large enough to be wielded interchangeably as a doorstop and a weapon. Laura van den Berg
Culture Better Enough Favors Weapon Write Still Question Large Novel
Like many American readers, I was first introduced to Magda Szabo's work when New York Review Books reissued the Hungarian master's profound and haunting novel 'The Door.' Laura van den Berg
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When I'm between projects, I keep a journal I call a 'thought log,' and it's my practice to write down whatever interests me. Laura van den Berg
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In my own life, I have found grief to be enormously distorting, particularly if it's sudden or extreme in nature. Laura van den Berg
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I am a pretty omnivoracious reader in respect to prose style, but if the prose doesn't have its own music, if the relationship to the sentence seems unconsidered or superficial, I have a really hard time reading the work. Laura van den Berg
Work Music Time Relationship Respect Reading Style Own Pretty Superficial Seems Prose Reader Am Time Reading Sentence Really Hard Hard Time
On my first trip to Havana, I was stopped by a woman who turned out to be a Canadian tour guide and who had mistaken me for a woman who had been part of one of her tour groups. Laura van den Berg
Me Woman First Guide Out Trip Havana Tour Had Part Mistaken Been Canadian Stopped Turned Who Groups Her
I am an incorrigible eavesdropper, so I am very much influenced by what I hear. Laura van den Berg
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I think we're often guilty of gravitating towards the familiar. Even if we recognize that certain patterns are unsatisfying and destructive, there can still be a comfort in the familiar recognition of a cycle repeating itself. Laura van den Berg
Think Guilty Recognition Recognize Destructive Towards Comfort Still Repeating Itself Familiar Often Patterns Certain Cycle Even
In the novels I most admire, there is this sense that, within the confines of the world, the possibilities are always opening in new and surprising ways - that was a quality I strived to capture, with the hope that the reader would be willing to follow me. Laura van den Berg
Hope Me Quality World Sense Ways Possibilities Willing Would Would-Be Admire Follow New Opening Most Reader Within Always Surprising Confines Capture Novels
To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills. Laura van den Berg
Survival Memory Degree Think Both Selective Essential Certain Certain Degree Skills
If we can think of a place, the physicality of a place, as a kind of 'material,' I would say the landscape of Florida in particular was especially important while writing 'Isle.' Laura van den Berg
Writing Important Think Say Kind Would Physicality Particular Isle Material Place While Landscape Florida
Culturally, there is often the expectation that women should be repelled by anything too ugly, too violent. Laura van den Berg
Women Ugly Expectation Too Repelled Often Anything Should Violent
If I leave the fictional world for too long, it's a bit like stepping through a portal, entering another reality, and then not knowing how to get back to where you were before. Laura van den Berg
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