Brian Heater over at The Daily Cross Hatch has the first part of a two-part interview with Peter Kuper about his new book, Stop Forgetting to Remember:
When you’re tackling a piece that covers such a large portion of your life, how do pick a logical place to end things?
You know, I figured out the ending when I got to the end. I wrote the end, exactly how it came out, in a very close time to finishing the book. I had general ideas of where things were going, but I hadn’t mapped everything out. In fact, I started the beginning of the book, but was having trouble with something so big, figuring out how to thumbnail through the whole thing. So I just started in, and got lost a little bit. I threw out a handful of pages that I never ended up using, but as I got further into it, I started to map it out more, and things like writing about the relationship with the friend that dissolves–I had some trepidation about that, because I thought, ‘am I going to re-dissolve that relationship?’ Actually, he was initially hesitant, but then he was very encouraging. Curiously, some of the people who saw the book were angry with me for their being in the book, and some people were angry at me for their not being in the book, so I knew I was doing something right.
