Jarred McGinnis on blending fact and fiction in The Coward
The Writing Life
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Was It a Hard Book to Write, or Hard to Get Over the Finish?
Am is about vulnerability and how you're not really allowed, as a man to admit it. And that's, i think it's at the heart of the book, absolutely. It was like researching in twas, like looking at people, discussing who were newly injured. Cause iand that eally sparks of memories of, like, you know, just kind of, what's going to happen? Am yet, really it, it opened up the space where i could make id i gave him the vulnerability he needed,. You know, whether he was worthy and capable of love, you know - that kind of thing.
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