On the occasion of his new book 'Two Nights in Lisbon,' the New York writer ChrisPavon answered a few of our questions about crime fiction, foreign lands, and the impact of John Grisham over Thomas Hardy.
I no longer know when or in what form most readers consume novels. But I do know that certain novels, brilliantly paced novels, especially Chris Pavone novels, require a degree of speed and mental alertness that make them best read while gripping a hardcover, and not while teetering on the precipice of sleep.
I was impressed by how much it evoked the same streets I’ve just been walking down today. When you write about a foreign locale, do you feel some extra-special need to be respectful? For instance, you can do anything you want to New York City—burn it down, knock over some buildings, anything goes. But do you feel some onus to treat a place that isn’t yours with more caution?
BOLLEN: There seems to be two general approaches to thriller-plot writing: those writers who know how it ends from the very start, and those who just wing it and have to go back and sew all the loose parts together with some semblance of order. Which are you?
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