And as a writer, I’ve always felt that I should do whatever I want-that makes a better book. I realised the character I was writing was so close to Arthur Less that I was being foolish not to use what I already had. My agent told me not to write another Less book in fact, I wrote 100 pages of another novel and it was terrible. You spend so much time going over the same pages when you write a novel, and this time, I just kept writing it. I thought, ‘I’m just going to write what I want to, something that’s great fun and not a serious, important novel.’ Kunzum: Was a sequel always on your mind?ĪS Greer: After I finished the book, I often kept writing it (the sequel) in my head. And I didn’t I wrote another Less book instead.

Is that something you relate to?ĪS Greer: Yeah, absolutely! After winning the Pulitzer Prize, I was thinking, ‘Why did I win this? That’s not right.’ And then I had to write a book that was a Pulitzer Prize winner’s book.

Kunzum: Less suffers from an impostor syndrome in both the books. I think I’m more like the narrator, Freddy Pelu that’s actually my voice-it’s a little bit more teasing. I’m like a reporter writing down everything he’s experiencing it. Because I think of him as much more innocent, more naive, about the world. In fact, some of the scenes that happen in the books are exactly what I experienced. I certainly give Arthur Less a lot of my experiences. In a freewheeling conversation with Sumeet Keswani, he talks about his writing process, travels for research, character inspirations, favourite LGBTQIA+ books, and much more! A Conversation with Andrew Sean Greer Kunzum: How much of yourself did you put into Arthur Less? Or do you relate more to any other character in the books?ĪS Greer: Looking at me and looking at the book cover, you might think that is me. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less, Andrew Sean Greer went against industry advice to release a sequel this year: Less is Lost.

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