You showed up, everybody's noses were in their books. And the total beauty of this place, man, is that everyone there was, like, law students. I would go there at midnight and write until 4:00 A.M. I was twenty-nine, I stayed at my dad’s for the two months, and near his house was an all-night coffee shop-open twenty-four hours. The first book…well, The High Strung had two months off the road for the first time in forever. So where did you write that first book then? Yeah-I mean, not the very first one, but something like the second through the eighth were all written on the road. You started out writing books in a van, right? While touring for The High Strung? You know what I mean? It’s not, like, those grand homes that we went to after she became a bestselling author. There’s a statue there of Ignatius Reilly from A Confederacy of Dunces, and I was like, “Hey, let’s go look at that statue!” Then I was like, “Actually, I don’t know, I actually haven’t read that book…but I do want to go to Anne Rice’s house.” And, so…she lived in numerous places, and the real place that you want to see is where she lived when she wrote Interview, but…I don’t even know if people know where that is. Josh Malerman: Yeah, it was like…eight days ago, or something. Max Booth III: You were just at Anne Rice’s house, right? That’s pretty insane timing.
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