I've just read this on Siri Hustvedt's website. Interesting, isn't it? “And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should get back together at the end of The Awful Truth? There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren’t there? And they are o...

Hi, Gregg,
I would like to know : as a writer, don't you feel the characters have a "life" of their own, and in the end, they may escape your plan?
Is the end of your novel just as you planned it at the beginning?

Hi, Lucy
Thank you for telling us about these two websites! They are really great! I've just subscribed to the "tracking" one.

I think a good book experience is when the author surprises us... Have you ever read The Elegance of The Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery? When I first read it, the ending did knock me out! How could she do this to me??? So yes, I really felt cheated. But after a while, I asked myself, had I been the aut...

Hi,
May I suggest novels by Siri Hustvedt ? Such as The Sorrows Of An American and What I loved .