I didn’t even think of this before, but when they dub these things in other countries, Robert de Niro always has to be the same person. The German audiobook of my last book was read by the German dubbed voice of Robert de Niro, which is so fucking bizarre. But reading the entire book and having a director there with you who was making sure that every last “S” was crisp-it just wasn’t the way I wanted to go through the book. I like to deliver things in the rhythms in which I wrote them. Well, I auditioned for the audiobook for my latest novel, and I realized I love to read precisely for these reasons we’ve been discussing. It almost sounds like the audiobook would act like a cover band or something. I’ve listened to almost none of them strangely.

I’m assuming you have audiobooks for your own books, right? The process of reading is pretty much constant. It’s funny, if I’m on my own in the office, I almost struggle to say how much of it is actually aloud and how much whispered and how much of it’s in my head. I find it just creates that further separation out from the sound of the world in order to allow the sound of whatever’s in my head to filter up through the distractions. I can be in the middle of the woods but I have earplugs in. I tend to be in the opposite the direction, I have earplugs no matter where I am.

But I can’t really compose while listening to music. With this book, I would often be listening to a song in a certain genre when I was writing a certain character put myself in that headspace. I do listen to music immediately prior to writing.

It doesn’t make it less bodily-the neural pathways that capture that sense of being moved or not being able to get something out of your head probably travel along similar lines.ĭid you listen to music when you were writing this book? Yeah, but that’s the sound, right? Your recollection of a tune is also in your own head.

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