![]() I am a longtime fan of the genre, so process-wise, one thing that was fun and interesting about working on "The Third Hotel" was getting to sort of dig deeper into the genre. So this sort of falls into place, doesn't it? SIMON: Richard, her late husband, or husband who may be late - I don't want to give anything away - was a critic of horror films. LAURA VAN DEN BERG: Thank you so much for having me, Scott. Laura van den Berg's novel is "The Third Hotel." And Laura van den Berg, who's previously published collections of stories and a novel and lectures at Harvard joins us from WGBH in Boston. Laura van den Berg has written what amounts to a shape-shifter of a novel, where Clare searches for clarity and finality in a world that keeps changing, flashing and rearranging itself. She follows him through the streets but never speaks, as the novelist writes, she was afraid that if she spoke, he might disappear. ![]() ![]() ![]() Clare, a recently widowed woman who's at the center of Laura van den Berg's new novel, goes to a movie one night at the Havana Film Festival and sees the last person she'd expect, her late husband. ![]()
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