I've kept a diary since I was sixteen and this book is a highly fictionalized account of my life from 16 to 30. By the time I had finished rewriting it I wasn't sure what really happened and what I had imagined. The real-life inspirations for the book ended just before I met the woman that would go on to be my wife for twelve years. When she finally read the book she cried miserably. In my new book and my first stab at non-fiction, Father of the Year, I am praying that my amazing girlfriend doesn't kill me for writing about the women I dated before falling in love with her. Again as in Platitudes, I wanted to play with literary conventions. Nabokov, Cortazar and Infante were big influences. |
