Your new novel is largely about the America in between San Francisco and New York. So I was like, yeah, just find a dress and some tulle and let’s just set it up.īOLLEN: How did you find tulle so quickly?īOLLEN: That’s where you find it. GREER: I’m totally game because I have no sense of dignity. I guess the Times was too.īOLLEN: So seldom are writers are up for doing something fun in a photo shoot. The photographer said, let’s give them something wild and I was up for it. And here we are, by phone from New York to San Francisco, both probably wishing we were in Italy.ĬHRISTOPHER BOLLEN: Today I went to the gym and there you were, on a fleet of stationary bicycles, the riders all holding up a section of the Times with your portrait on it.ĪNDREW SEAN GREER: People are sending me pictures of people on the train with my giant face covered in tulle. But the author himself is also a delight. Less is Lost is a gay odyssey for our weird, divided age. Along the way, Greer’s genius guzzles lots of gas.
Follow him on Twitter: for imageįuzheado, CC BY-SA 4.Good news! Less is not lost! Or, rather, Andrew Sean Greer’s brilliant breakout out of novel, the hilarious and heartbreaking Less, released back in (the simpler? More horrific? Hard to measure) 2017 and which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize, now has a sequel, which, thankfully, is just as hilarious and heartbreaking and wise and shot through with such vivid, beautiful imagery, that it manages to stay true to the wonder of the first novel while venturing out with our gently graying middle-aged protagonist through the wilds of contemporary America, all told through the clever, slightly less wide-eyed lens of his younger boyfriend, who sits in faraway Maine waiting for this Arthur Less, of solo RV road tripping with only a lap dog as a companion, to arrive. He is the author of six works of fiction, including the bestseller The Confessions of Max Tivoli, The Story of a Marriage, and Less. Greer received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Less. With each book I’m trying to do something that terrifies me.Īndrew Sean Greer is an American novelist and short story writer.I love going to writers’ colonies in pastoral settings where there’s nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work on your book.Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?.Here is a writer possessing the greatest talent: that of fully inhabiting the lives of others.It is a feat of the mind to guess another’s heart. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy.Happy Birthday, Andrew Sean Greer, born 21 November 1970.
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