Did you ever do such a familial outing either as a child or adult?Ī:For years we went with our daughter to Lair of the Golden Bear, a weeklong camp for UC Berkeley alumni and their families. Q: Much of the book is spent at a family camp with Max and his parents. Besides, as you point out, Max both succeeds and fails. Was your message “to thine ownself be true,” or did you just see this as a setup for Max?Ī:I tried hard, I’m telling you, hard, not to hammer a message into the book. Max sets out to do exactly that, and in the end, he both succeeds and fails. Q: All of us dream of being a better and “cooler” version of ourselves. More than anything else, “Anyway*” is about that feeling. Max is in that fleeting netherworld in which one is neither a little kid nor a teenager, but a (semi)-independent being balanced precariously, giddily, gloriously in between. Q: When you set out to write “Anyway*,” did you think of it as a coming-of-age story?Ī:It’s an almost coming-of-age story. Then Simon & Schuster came up with the idea of putting them in that great font, and added little Max-doodles. They’re meant to be fun and funny, even a little goofy sometimes. A:Just the opposite: I was confident they they’d be an attraction.
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