Here’s something neat for Throwback Thursday, an interview Stewart did for The Talks back around when the German edition of The Odds was published. You can listen to snippets of the conversation, too. The lineup of interviews is stellar — in film, the likes of Alicia Vikander, Anthony Hopkins, and Antonio Banderas, and those are just the A’s! LeBron James, Mick Jagger, there’s no shortage of star power on this site.
Check out the in-depth article on Ocean State in Bostonia, Boston University’s Alumni Magazine!
“When I was in eighth grade my sister helped kill another girl.”
So begins Stewart O’Nan’s latest novel, Ocean State, a taut, deeply empathic exploration of a teenage love triangle with devastating consequences.
“In writing the book, I wanted to be able to convey the feeling of what it feels like to be headlong, wildly, in love and how wretched and destroyed you can feel from love,” says O’Nan (ENG’83). “It’s a love story, not a murder story or a thriller.”
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https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/stewart-onan-new-book-ocean-state/
Hoopla has chosen Ocean State as one of its summer 2022 selections!
You can read it or listen to it on the site or on the Android or iOS apps.
It’ll all be crystal clear on 7/1/2022 for Ocean State! 😀
Wednesday 7/13/2022 8PM ET/5PM PT
Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x9ngIEPoRq-7outd1YFweA
The Pallbearers Club (William Morrow) is a cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable — and unsettling — friendship, with blood-chilling twists, crackling wit, and a thrumming pulse in its veins — from Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song. What if the coolest girl you’ve ever met decided to be your friend? Art Barbara was so not cool. He was a 17-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair metal, had to wear a monstrous back-brace at night for his scoliosis, and started an extracurricular club for volunteer pallbearers at poorly attended funerals. But his new friend thought the Pallbearers Club was cool. And she brought along her Polaroid camera to take pictures of the corpses. Okay, that part was a little weird. So was her obsessive knowledge of a notorious bit of New England folklore that involved digging up the dead. And there were other strange things — terrifying things — that happened when she was around, usually at night. But she was his friend, so it was okay, right? Decades later, Art tries to make sense of it all by writing The Pallbearers Club: A Memoir. But somehow this friend got her hands on the manuscript and, well, she has some issues with it. And now she’s making cuts. Seamlessly blurring the lines between fiction and memory, the supernatural and the mundane, The Pallbearers Club is an immersive, suspenseful portrait of an unusual and disconcerting relationship. Tremblay will be joined in conversation by Stewart O’Nan, author of Ocean State and Emily, Alone.
The Works of Stewart O'Nan 