I have a character who is a cross between Nina Hagen and Lena Lovich. Punk music, circa 1980, with special emphasis on LA. ДЄ history of the LA punk scene, WeвЂ™ve got the Neutron Bomb by Mark Spitz and Brendan Mullen, totally evocative of time and place. The existential, familial doom of The Sound and The Fury. Poe, especially The Fall of the House of Usher. The Dark Castle and the Duke who stops time with his cold cold hand. I return to this for a certain aristocratic clarity. The Ballad of Reading Gaol, by Oscar Wilde. ThereвЂ™s a whole Transsiberian theme in the book, and I think Cendrars captures the restlessness and extremes of youth so beautifully. The Prose of the Transsiberian and Little Jeanne of Montmartre, by Blaise Cendrars. вЂњ Burnt NortonвЂќ from Four Quartets by T.S. Sexton and my protagonist have many fears and yearnings in common. вЂњ Riding the Elevator into the Sky,вЂќ by Anne Sexton, from The Awful Rowing Towards God. вЂњLove in the AsylumвЂќ was actually the title of the short story. ThereвЂ™s a whole Dylan Thomas theme in Paint It Black.

вЂњ Love in the Asylum,вЂќ вЂњ Altarwise by Owl-Light,вЂќ вЂњ Over Sir JohnвЂ™s Hill,вЂќ and вЂњ In Country Sleep,вЂќ by Dylan Thomas. This is just some of the music that plays constantly inside my head, the colors of my internal palette, that bleeds through all my work, and specifically, informed Paint It Black. We live in the creative products of our civilization no less than we live in a house on a street in a city in a country at a certain time in history. In May 2017, a film based on the novel, directed by Amber Tamblyn and written by Tamblyn and Ed Dougherty, starring Alia Shawkat and Janet McTeer, is slated for release by Imagination Films Worldwide.ДЇrom Janet: Here are the works that informed Paint It Black (ran in September 2006 issue of Poets and Writers) Despite a fierce mutual enmity, the two women find themselves drawn into an eerie relationship reflecting equal parts distrust and blind need. Compounding her grief and rage is MichaelвЂ™s pianist mother, Meredith Loewy, who returns to her native city with the news of her only sonвЂ™s death. вЂњWhat happens to a dream when the dreamer is gone?вЂќ is the central question of Paint It Black, the story of the aftermath of MichaelвЂ™s death, and JosieвЂ™s struggle to hold on to the true world he had shared with her. Josie Tyrell, art model, teen runaway, actress in student films, thinks sheвЂ™s found her chance at real love and entre to a greater world in Michael Faraday-artist and Harvard dropout, son of a renowned concert pianist and grandson of a legendary film composerвЂ“until the day she receives a call from the Los Angeles County Coroner, asking her to identify her loverвЂ™s body.

The aftermath of a suicide, set in 1980 punk rock LA.

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