She’s at least honest about who she is and what she wants. It reminded me of that Bob Dylan line, “to live outside the law you must be honest.” Like, she’s the con man but she’s the most honest person in the story, in a way. Like any good grifter, she looks down on anyone who falls for her shtick. As she says, they need some sort of mythology about themselves or their situation in order to function. And so she does think people are dumb, because most people have some sort of filter they’re using, or some sort of lie they’re telling themselves to get through the day. ![]() ![]() But she’s someone who, because she’s such an empath, can see through most people’s bullshit. She’s the only one in the whole book who tells the truth!Įxactly! She’s quite forthright. Someone called her an unreliable narrator, and she’s not that to me, she’s very honest. I’ll never get over how dumb people are.” Anyone who’s read your book “Gone Girl” knows you’re interested in the shifting nature of reality and reliability – There’s a line in your new story, “The Grownup,” in which the unnamed main character, who grew up in a kind of grafter family, is working as a fortune teller, and gets sucked into a wealthy family’s drama, thinks to herself, “people are dumb. ![]() “The Grownup” won the 2015 Edgar Award for best short story from the Mystery Writers of America and debuts as a stand-alone book in hardcover today.įlynn talked with Salon about her novel-in-progress, her screenplay collaboration with Steve McQueen, and her deliciously creepy new short story. Martin instead. Previously published in Martin’s “Rogues” anthology under a different name (“What Do You Do?”), Flynn’s “The Grownup” is a ghost tale with a twist about a phony psychic enlisted to help a desperate suburbanite deal with her spooky old house and its effects on her sinister stepson - who isn’t quite what he seems. While it seemed like everyone in the world was looking for " the next 'Gone Girl'" in the wake of her immense success, Flynn wrote a short story for George R.R. The Kansas City native, who previously worked as a film and TV critic for Entertainment Weekly, now lives in Chicago with her husband and children. After two previous novels, Gillian Flynn catapulted to fame with 2012’s bestselling "Gone Girl" the movie, for which she wrote the screenplay, came out in 2014.
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