The 77-year-old author has said this will be his final novel … maybe.
Tim O’Brien is best known for his books about Vietnam, National Book Award-winner “Going After Cacciato” and the spare but unforgettable “The Things They Carried.” His first novel in two decades, “America Fantastica,” will surprise people who know him from those books. America has been infected by “mythomania,” also known as “the lying disease,” which injects new but dangerous life into our reality. People can claim anything is true and the word spreads, believed by more than you can imagine.
Boyd and Angie. I wrote 18 or 20 pages and then dropped it because I had two young children and decided I was going to be a good father, or at least try. I couldn’t do it if I’m getting up in the middle of the night to write. And you can’t be a good father if even when you’re wide awake and sitting at the dinner table, you’re thinking about these make-believe characters instead of your own kid. So I quit.
At one point Randy says, “Why does everybody underestimate me? Except me.” That’s not my voice. That’s him, he’s this doofus but he’s dangerous. I didn’t know that when I started writing, he was just a boyfriend chasing after Angie, but he became more and more part of my life. I kept getting an evil version of Matthew McConaughey in my head, a lean cowboy sort, but absolutely amoral – he doesn’t know what morality is so he can’t be immoral.
Laughter can be a revenge of sorts. You can’t speak rationally to these conspiracy people. It is impossible to speak rationally to the half of the country that believes Trump won that election. And you can’t argue them out of it. So why not laugh at them? Or at all of us, I suppose.
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