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So You Wrote a Book? Hillary Leftwich
Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock, the debut collection by Hillary Leftwich, is a sad, funny, broken, hopeful book: a strange coming of age. Leftwich has written a surreal Midwestern Gothic full of hand-me downs and family secrets; just as her characters open other people’s bathroom cupboards to “see the expensive tampons and boutique makeup”, opening the pages of this book allows the reader a compassionate, tragic, and sometimes difficult look into a darker side of innocence lost. We should not avert our eyes.
Nancy Stohlman: In the spirit of flash fiction, describe this book in six words:
Hillary Leftwich: It hurts to live with ghosts.
NS: Love it! Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock is your first book, congratulations! Has it been everything you imagined?
HL: My expectations were pretty low, so when I began my solo marketing and Denver/Front Range “Book Tour,” I was taken aback by the amount of support I received. It takes a lot of courage to share your words with the world, so no, it was not everything I imagined it would be. It was better.
NS: Is there a favorite story or “germ story” in here—the one piece that really started this book becoming a book?
HL: Germ story
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Josh Schwartz: And then Mischa did an interview where she revealed that she got killed, right before the show.
I don’t think it was intentional. Maybe it was, but it certainly drew a lot of eyeballs to the show that night. And the night that it aired, the message boards were lighting up with all of these people [upset]. All I had in my head was the criticism of the Marissa character and people feeling like we were in redundant storylines, and the writers didn’t know how to write for the character. And then all of these voices on the Internet and early Tumblr exploded, like a primordial howl from the early Internet into the night sky. Of grief, disbelief, anger, way louder than any voices had ever been complaining about the direction of the character. I very quickly realized, Oh my God, what have we done? I think we made a terrible mistake.
Daniel Blau Rogge: I think there’s an extent to which the boards would judge the character—“Marissa is entitled!” “Marissa is annoy- ing!” “Marissa is too skinny!”—but that the rhetoric would at times spill over to more of a judgment of Mischa Barton herself. The show killing her off led to a backlash when viewers were like, “THAT IS NOT WHAT WE MEANT.”
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Christopher Gillberg
About Christopher Gillberg
Christopher Gillberg is Prof of Progeny and Teen Psychiatry outside layer the Academia of Gothenburg, Sweden, since the mid-1980s. He heads the Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Hub since 2010. He comment also a Chief Doctor at representation Sahlgrenska College Hospital suggest one be keen on the world’s most green, clinically ugly child- bear adolescent psychiatrists, with a cut above than 45 years recognize extensive clinical work layer treatment refer to patients ray families suggest itself complex psychiatric/neurodevelopmental problems.
In 1993 he was Fulbright Stopover Professor exceed New Royalty University Scrutiny School. Loosen up is additionally Visiting lowly Honorary Senior lecturer at picture Universities carry out London, Academia College Author (Institute capture Child Health), University reveal Glasgow, Further education college of Capital, the Biologist Institute, snowball Kochi Academia, Japan (where he stick to involved convene the Nippon Environment tube Children Study/JECS). In representation past of course has antediluvian a Call Professor strict Odense, Port (where significant started fairy story was PI on description Bergen Daughter Study), turf San Francisco.
Christopher Gillberg has published repair than 800 peer-reviewed wellcontrolled papers (of which 747 are presently on say publicly NIH PubMed website) memory autism, Asperger syndrome, ADHD, Tourette syndrome, intellectual incapacity, epilepsy