![]() But as a fiction writer, I just poured it all into the mulch heap and let whatever weird thing emerges emerge. The Rumpus: So what was the research process for The Orphan Master’s Son, a novel set in North Korea? How did you even begin to start synthesizing all this information?Īdam Johnson: If I were writing a nonfiction book, I would’ve kept note cards and my bibliography-all the crap they trained me to do in school. In the latter, fourteen other students and I collaborated on a graphic novel called Shake Girl, which Johnson and Kealey edited. Along with Tom Kealey, he taught two of the best classes of my college career, one on new media writing and one on the graphic novel. I would know, because I was a student of his. He also teaches creative writing at Stanford. He’s published three books, the latest of which, a novel called The Orphan Master’s Son, follows the extraordinary life of a North Korean orphan. Johnson’s fiction has appeared in publications as varied as Tin House, Esquire, The Paris Review, and Playboy, and his awards include a Whiting Writers’ Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Stegner Fellowship. When I saw Stephen Elliott call The Orphan Master’s Son “the best novel I’ve read in forever,” in one of his Daily Rumpus emails I knew I had to interview Adam Johnson for the Rumpus. ![]()
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