Much of the time I was reading, I was curious to know who would get the final say, as it were, on Renn and his family. As for LKF, including an interview and excerpts from a memoir was a fun way to approach and vary point of view and voice.īAB: Little Known Facts is also told from multiple perspectives. The multiplicity of style and structure that’s possible with a little postmodern playfulness can be very enlivening, especially, at least in my case, when I’m writing longer form fiction. Sneed: I really like postmodern form, George Saunders’s stories, for example, and have taught fiction workshops that require students to include postmodern elements in their stories. Can you say something about your decision to be inventive with the structure? I find fame to be such an interesting topic because despite much evidence to the contrary (DUIs, drug addiction, divorce, for example), so many of us steadfastly belief that movie stars are very happy and live wholly enviable lives.īAB: The construction of the novel is untraditional: one chapter is the ostensible transcript of a recording Renn made of notes on his life, another notes from the memoir that Renn’s second wife is writing. As a result of our entertainment industry’s worldwide notoriety, I think our movie stars are elevated to an even higher astral plane than they would be if they were only known in the U.S. I remember seeing American movies and TV shows everywhere the year I studied in France in college and being very surprised by this. What draws you to write about celebrity culture?Ĭhristine Sneed: American culture, especially TV and film, is to some extent the world’s culture.

Several of your short stories, such as “The Prettiest Girls” and “Alex Rice Inc.,” are also centered on the troubled glamour of Hollywood.

Braddock Avenue Books: Your novel, Little Known Facts, centers on a movie star and the impact that his celebrity has had on the lives of those closest to him.

Little known facts by christine sneed