BEE: But how can I say that? How can I actually say that anything is the last novel, especially with the way that I work? I've said that a lot during my career. I remember when I finished Glamorama that I wasn't going to write Lunar Park. Glamorama took so long to write and was really difficult; I was kind of depleted after. And then I did a long tour for it and I thought, you know what? I'm never gonna write another book again. But then what happens is you get these emotions, and you become interested in a book again, regardless of whether you thought you ever wanted to write it. And I remember very clearly standing in my kitchen about a month after Glamorama was completely done, and I thought, what am I gonna do now? I was scrambling some eggs and suddenly I realized, oh my God, Lunar Park is gonna be about this, this and this. Out of the blue. I remember turning the stove off and immediately sitting down at my desk and starting to make notes.
Then, after Lunar Park, I thought, am I really going to go there, this idea of going back to Clay? Because that's the idea I had in my head while I was doing the research for Lunar Park, which was re-reading Less Than Zero. And I thought, no- and then of course, Imperial Bedrooms happens. So I can say, I don't know if I'm ever going to write another novel again, but that's just not how it works. I might say that, but that might not be the case. I might be feeling very differently about it a month or a year from now- I don't know. I can't answer that conclusively. I don't want this to be my last novel, but I'm also thinking about the novel- what more can be done with it? I'm interested in television right now. Television seems to be, in a way, where I want to take the novel. I want to take the novel into television. But we'll see.
Denke, ich werde sie aber sowieso beide noch lesen.