The town in which this happened tried and executed the elephant. A circus elephant had gone berserk and killed somebody. Then a friend of mine, playwright Jon Tuttle, mentioned an event about which he wanted to write a play. I knew how the book ended, but I needed an event to make things change., a tipping point. I had a difficult time getting the denouement of Memoirs From the Asylum underway. Of course there are others whom I dislike and wish had never come into the lovely worlds of my books.Ħ) What was the hardest part of writing this book? Most of them I like, and I become quite upset when bad things happen to them. I want to understand them, to listen to them, and to recreate their voices with fidelity. My previous novel, Widow’s Walk, is about faith and the conflict between religion and spirituality and between love and responsibility: again basic strata of my and most readers’ lives.ĥ) What do you think most characterizes your writing? At another level it is about fear, freedom and existential choice: that is some of the basic substance of my life. Memoirs From the Asylum is at one level about mental health, which has been my life’s work.
Sometimes I like to have the TV in the background it’s the equivalent of white noise – totally meaningless.Ĥ) How did you become involved with the subject or theme of your book? When I listen to music, I like classical, country-western, and some cross-cultural music – interestingly much of it from India and Pakistan. My totem animal has always been the moose, but my friends and family usually refer to me as a friendly bear – except when around salmon, when I can get quite greedy.ģ) Do you listen to music while you write, or do you require total and utter silence? Since your children or grandchildren will undoubtedly be reading Memoirs From the Asylum in school in years to come, don’t you want to be ahead of the curve? How can you pass on the chance to read a book that has repeatedly been called one of the best books of the year – and not just by the author and his relatives?Īlthough we had many dogs when we were younger, I have never thought of myself as a dog person. SOME THINGS THAT MATTER TO AUTHOR KENNETH WEENE
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