Peter Straub
@peterstraubnyc
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my profession obliges me to enjoy solitary confinement.
New York City
Joined February 2009
I don’t really care who owns a sideshow like Twitter.
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@peterstraubnyc This is the brilliance of Lost Boy Lost Girl and In The Night Room. Fiction is the truth, even if it isn’t the truth. And there’s hardly a better example I can think of than the Blue Rose Trilogy/Tim Underhill books
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Basically, this interview reduced me to the oatmeal-mush stage.
Check out a terrific Q&A with @emmastraub about her new novel THIS TIME TOMORROW, time travel and her own past, and sharing the book with her father, novelist @peterstraubnyc @riverheadbooks
https://t.co/2ahw2gVkkq
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Know what, our country reminds me of Watership Down: you get to live in this beautiful place, as long as you agree that now and then, randomly, one or more of your children might get picked off by someone far greedier, less liberal, and way more visionary than you.
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Dear @peterstraubnyc it’s been 20 years since I flipped the book close that cold, December night in the ancient hills of Shimla, but Alma Mobley hasn’t stopped haunting my sleep ever since. There she was again last night, urging me to consider what might be on the other side.
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Here we go: this is the real deal, and not just in books.
@peterstraubnyc This is the brilliance of Lost Boy Lost Girl and In The Night Room. Fiction is the truth, even if it isn’t the truth. And there’s hardly a better example I can think of than the Blue Rose Trilogy/Tim Underhill books
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Nope, it's just that this furniture is all about 30 years old.
@peterstraubnyc A man with a levengers credit card!
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Almost nothing can please me as much as this comment.
@peterstraubnyc I read Houses Without Doors in high school. I remember thinking, wait a second, this is real—somehow, the author got reality into the page. Troubling and heady.
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That book was carefully composed, and the Interludes written especially to appear where they do. I’ve always thought there was something special about that collection . Thank you for your generosity.
@peterstraubnyc When you put Houses Without Doors together, did you place the stories in that order for a reason? When I first read it, I skipped around. When I finally read it front to back, the emotional impact was heightened and I was completely devastated.
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Yes, it really does go like that.
does your heart ever go: ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ JAZZ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
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This was in the days of the dismal "broken doll" fad, so that explains the jacket. Full Circle was the film tie-in's papaperback jacket.
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That's right, Jeff. I always disliked that jacket.
@peterstraubnyc so Julia was called Full Circle in chapters in this edition?
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It may be that their plucky author threw himself into the gap, undergoing approx.15 years of lying on his back and discoursing to the ceiling, at times through tears, about whatever happened to be going through his mind for 45 minutes four times a day. It was like spelunking.
Men will literally [@peterstraubnyc’s Blue Rose Trilogy] instead of going to therapy
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It would be wonderful if I thought your last sentence were true--I'd take a fantastic amount of pride in it.
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Shoehorn it in now, edit it out later.
I have a really interesting factoid that isn't really relevant to the story I'm writing but I really, really want to include it. Do I shoehorn it in and figure the reader will forgive me or leave it out in the interest of logic?
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Much of the work in those pages was shared and revised.
@peterstraubnyc I gotta know - whose idea was the flying over town omniscient POV in the first 50 pages of Black House?
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