![]() ![]() ![]() Now, reading a book, if you want more information about the subject, you just click and there it is. This might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and. What happened between the first publication of the book and today was the digital revolution. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt: 9780679751526 : Books NATIONAL BESTSELLER Elegant and wicked. ![]() But with the app we sort of have what I didn’t want! ( Laughs) We have pictures of all the participants, crime scene photos, audio interviews. The sort of traditional murder story with graphic photos I didn’t want. From 1961 to 1969 he was an associate editor of Esquire. He graduated from Harvard College, where he was an editor on the Harvard Lampoon. I wanted readers to have the experience of reading a novel, and it's up to the author to create the pictures in your mind. John Berendt was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1939. WHEN I wrote the book I didn't want any photos. That’s a bit strange because I’m from New York!īut nonetheless I found it appealing-that sort of rolling, run-on story narrative that gets more bizarre as you go along, with all these entertaining details and shards of things happening. When writing Midnight I decided the narrative form should in some way be similar to the narrative form in Savannah. Gore Vidal once said the most important thing a writer can find is their own voice. What you most want to achieve in writing is a voice of your own. It's the highest form of compliment I could receive! I HAVE actually been referred to as a Southern writer. »On being a Yankee who has joined the ranks of great Southern authors: ![]()
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