Howard Norman - Archive Interview #313 (9/22/14)

Interview from the archives with Vermont author Howard Norman, whose new novel is Next Life Might Be Kinder. This is our first of two interviews, during which we talked about an earlier novel, What Is Left The Daughter? 

This week's Write the Book Prompt is about ghosts and hauntings, a theme that exists in some of Howard Norman's work. Don't think horror, don't think "ghost story," but consider what haunts you. Or what haunts a character. Or even what haunts a story, a setting, a situation. Then write about it, but try to keep it subtle. Write about a haunting in a way that makes a reader do a double take, as if  she just saw something flit by out of the corner of her eye. Did I just see that?

Good luck with this prompt and please listen next week for another!

Music credits: 1) “Dreaming 1″ - John Fink; 2) “Filter” - Dorset Greens (a Vermont band featuring several former South Burlington High School students, now alums).