My mom was a big Elvis fan and a general pop culture buff, and so I grew up in a house filled with what were then called "movie magazines,"Before Elvis when Rhona Barrett wrote her column about the stars. And… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I'm a pop culture junkie. I'm a People magazine reader, an US Weekly subscriber; all of those celebrity magazines get my dollar. — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
My mom was a big Elvis fan and a general pop culture buff, and so I grew up in a house filled with what… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
To me, feminism in literature deals with the female characters being in some way central to the thematic concerns of the book, or that… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
As I get older, I'm finding that I recognize certain celebrities only because they frequently grace the pages of US Weekly, but beyond that,… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
You're thinking about the continuum of life as you load the washing machine or scoop out the litter box.blue-girl-larger Or maybe that's just me.… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I'm not conscious of my own themes as I write first drafts, no, and in fact, I work hard to stay in that unconscious… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I think that absurdity in literature looks into a lack of meaning in some important and fundamental way. It allows us to ask questions… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor Samsa woke… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I'm a pop culture junkie. I'm a People magazine reader, an US Weekly subscriber; all of those celebrity magazines get my dollar. — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I've realized that with each novel I seem to set out a kind of puzzle for myself. And I am never sure in the… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to come with… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
