![]() ![]() ![]() If I learned anything with The Virgin Suicides, I just learned if you keep going, you’ll figure out how to shape the thing. “Each book that you write, you swim a long way from the piers at a certain point-you just don’t know what’s going to happen. (An early installment appeared in the Review’s Winter 1990 issue.) “I wrote two hours every night, and on the weekends I would spend four hours,” he says. Today’s featured writer is Jeffrey Eugenides, who discusses his debut novel, The Virgin Suicides, published in 1993. Created by the filmmakers Tom Bean, Casey Brooks, and Luke Poling, each video is a portrait of the artist as a beginner-and a look at the creative process, in all its joy, abjection, delusion, and euphoria. The novel is written in first person plural from the perspective of an anonymous group of teenage. The fictional story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on the lives of five doomed sisters, the Lisbon girls. Inspired by our famous Writers at Work interviews, “ My First Time” is a series of short videos about how writers got their start. The Virgin Suicides is a 1993 debut novel by the American author Jeffrey Eugenides. ![]()
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