I was really creeped out by them they roost on the houses.
I live in a part of Greenport where those vultures are - about 40 or 50 of them. I tell them toward the end or maybe the middle - I can’t remember the page. To get people around here to read “Big Swiss,” I tell them they’re in it. But random people in town, they don’t necessarily know.
It has been strange I have two other books that nobody read (“Pretend I’m Dead” and “Vacuum in the Dark”). I gave a reading at Spotty Dog Books & Ale and it was well attended. I think a lot of people I know weren’t really aware or familiar with my work, so this is a new thing. I go to bars, I’m just not one to talk about things I am writing to anybody.
I haven’t been out (in town) since the book came out - I went on a tour. their victimhood, they act re-traumatised.This interview has been edited and condensed.ĭo people in Hudson know you’re an author? “Trauma people are almost as unbearable to me as Trump people,” says Flavia. The bedroom antics are filthy enough to make heterosexual women wonder what they’ve been missing, but the real pleasure lies in Beagin’s unerring ear both for precarious comedy and for all that is fatuous about modern life, including the culture of therapy itself.
Greta has several issues of her own, including unaddressed questions about her mother’s suicide, but if you are already rolling your inner eye at yet another novel about damaged women dealing with trauma then fear not: Beagin seems to write with one eyebrow permanently raised without undermining the sincerity of her characters or their actions. Except that unbeknownst to Flavia, Greta is by chance already privy to some of Flavia’s darker secrets thanks to her work as a therapy session transcriber, meaning she knows that 28 year-old Flavia, who is married, has never had an orgasm and that eight years ago she was terribly beaten up by a stranger she met in a diner. Jodie Comer is apparently already attached to a planned HBO adaptation of this smart and sexy oddball rom-com which pivots on an affair between Greta and Flavia, who meet in a dog park.
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