{"id":207,"date":"2007-12-19T22:27:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T03:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=207"},"modified":"2012-02-25T20:36:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T01:36:39","slug":"stewart-onan-bss-161","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/stewart-onan-bss-161\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart O\u2019Nan (BSS #161)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stewart O&#8217;Nan is the author of <i>Last Night at the Lobster<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/onan.jpg' alt='onan.jpg' align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2637\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-207-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo161.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo161.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo161.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo161.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=207-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo161.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo161.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 38:01 &#8212; 34.8MB)<\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Permitting authors to depict his sad quotidian life.<\/p>\n<p><b>Author:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stewart-onan.com\/\">Stewart O&#8217;Nan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b> The anonymous perception of the service sector, avoiding legal clearances from the Red Lobster, personal loyalty and honor vs. corporations, <i>High Noon<\/i>, the advantages of a setting a novel within a 24 hour period, using the present tense, collecting stories from restaurant employees, coats being sliced, the importance of cars, the sad-ass nature of the Chevy Regal, character names, working as a caterer, personal experience vs. imagination, education vs. reality, staying true to a character&#8217;s experience, Old World figures, attitudes toward the lottery, salting a parking lot vs. salting a meal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/04\/books\/review\/Rich-t.html?adxnnl=1&#038;adxnnlx=1198119719-tK\/xhvzsXNxnfYbwCFYNlQ\">&#8220;five page&#8221; fabrications from reviewers<\/a>, routine triggering memory, sugar packets vs. snow, <i>Last Night at the Lobster<\/i> as a Christmas book, Dickens, the comic nature of Christmas stories, Rudy Rucker&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.sjsu.edu\/faculty\/rucker\/readercon_7_12_2003.pdf\">power chords<\/a>, hyphenated adjective-noun combos, avoiding adjectives, nouns vs. adjectives, whether <i>Last Night at the Lobster<\/i> is a novel or a novella, FSG rejecting O&#8217;Nan, working-class fiction and contemporary literature, on writing without worrying about the market, and efforts to write a different book every time. <\/p>\n<p><b>EXCERPT FROM SHOW:<\/B> <\/p>\n<p><b>O&#8217;Nan:<\/b> Some people will say that about FSG, that it was too working class for FSG.  I think that&#8217;s kind of unfair to FSG.  I mean, they&#8217;ve done a lot of good work over the years.  A lot of good work.  No, I just think that my editor there didn&#8217;t really like the book that much and didn&#8217;t feel that they could bring it out and do well by it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Was there any explanation offered?<\/p>\n<p><b>O&#8217;Nan:<\/b> No.  Nothing too specific, I think.  But I don&#8217;t think that they were very happy with <i>The Good Wife<\/i>, which they&#8217;d done beforehand.  And we&#8217;d gone back and forth on that a lot.  But, no, I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any lack of working-class fiction out there in American fiction.  I don&#8217;t know.  I mean, this story is &#8212; I think in the New York world, it wouldn&#8217;t be seen as what people call a &#8220;sexy&#8221; novel.  I mean, it&#8217;s relatively low-key.  It deals with characters that are somewhat overlooked, I think. You don&#8217;t see these particular characters starring in TV shows or big films.  It&#8217;s a quiet story.  Maybe in this market, especially for fiction nowadays, things have to be louder or more fantastic or more quirky or more fabulist.  But that&#8217;s not really what I&#8217;m interested in.  I mean, this book, these are the people who I really wanted to show to the reader.  Because I think they&#8217;re relatively invisible and that there are millions of them out there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2638\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-207-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo161.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo161.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo161.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo161.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=207-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo161.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo161.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 38:01 &#8212; 34.8MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stewart O&#8217;Nan is the author of Last Night at the Lobster. 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