Doesnt didnt recognize gay rights. It was it was being gay was seen as a form of aversion and suffering when did you realize you were gay and when did you decide to go public. Probably realize that early on and i think it was a very common thing in our lives or you would tell one or 2 people one or 2 people would guess and then no one else would know so you would compartmentalize everything so that you know he lived it felt easy it felt natural but when i went to live in spraying when i was 2975. Boston i was wild at that time. There were no gay bars which meant that the street certain streets were just filled up not with gay men wandering about and it might have seemed there was repression but it didnt feel like that in spain felt much more open people were much more ready to enjoy their lives and arlen there was always a guilt or. To be describes this guilt very well he honors his characters in the struggles many of which are universal. Even if for instance fled poverty and suffered Emotional Turmoil as did millions of immigrants. To be in thinks its important to get the setting. He simply depicts the times in which is characters are living. I almost think if you know in a painting or portray the work done behind the brush work just to make it color behind often does a great deal of work even though it seems like background i think if youre writing a novel set in time no matter what you do what going on in that in the either background or deep background of the society has to make its way into the novel even if you try to keep it out it will come in somewhere other doesnt meet the foreground this project to know if you know what year because it matters enormously. To characters in tobins novels tend to be ordinary men and women teachers accountants merchants all from rural ireland. Are the heroes and heroines of his novels also his readers yes yes how did this become a good its become a good audience. You get a sense that a book a novel a new novel isnt it is some sort of intervention imagine a sort of imaginatively in the society that somehow or other book clubs or women who for example havent had a greater chances or education will take a book open to the out of the book and up meaning a lot to them that this book is there in a way i think this is obvious so filled with still i think with silences with things are just not mentioned much that its its if you dont talk often about things that really matter to you. So that for example if theres if you lose somebody even after death people often just go quiet just just so a book that deals with that becomes a way of breaking aside. Nicholas tobins most successful novel to teens it was adapted to a screenplay too though he didnt write it he did however write the screenplay for return to montauk together with journey director. Is a screenplay of brooklyn was written by minnie kong the after that german director for kushal and of asked you to to help him to be the cove writer for the screenplay of return to montauk. How did that happen and can you imagine today. Writing the screenplay for one of your own novels no i think its if youve written a novel but you dont want to do that is go back and make changes in it that you would never have made when you were writing it and find with a producer for a new producer or group of people telling you on oh we dont want her to go you know we want her to go to not go home or you know go to brooklyn much earlier we had said and youre suddenly actually you know. Destroying your own work so i didnt want to do that i liked what nick did but i didnt want to do it for the book or strong pay. I was ready i probably i had just written a novel so i was sort of free and the idea of working with him and learning something and actually looking at the form of screenplay and thinking about actors and we had a very good time both of us doing this a lot of the time we wrote together i mean literally together i mean we would be opposite one another to talk and know not listen to this he said no no no youre actually right this right this to try this and i was just like that for hours and people were stranded. People were staying with me say she was mad as to cause how you dont even listen to each other. So far returned to montauk has been tobins only foray into the world of show hes currently working on a new novel cut. One of the 1st also if youve read when you were young was too much money and now he told me that youre writing a novel about too much money can you tell me a little bit more about it you know when i was a teenager you were nobody in my world if you know youve heard watching grants films and reading the Magic Mountain and you know that they were the sort of necessary things part of that world of being you know an art student or literature student. In the early 19th seventies and hes been on my mind as a figure of great ambiguity that nothing about him is fully clear from his sexuality to his relationship to his family to his political beliefs to his response to various public things that occurred to the great difference between his life in the 1st world war and life in the 2nd world war his relation of to his brother to his mother to his sons 3 daughters as theres nothing stable in all that theres nothing everything has to be investigated and dramatize so its so its a very interesting story and a lot of it centers on the writing of dr faustus. So. Looking at us and show. You know having a rich time really trying to invoke him not as a power for mind would try to inhabit him fully as a character you know. To be was hardly able to write for almost 2 years he was diagnosed with cancer in 28 underwent chemotherapy prolonged stays in the hospital it left him exhausted. In an essay for the london review of books youve wrote about you dealing with the diagnosis and the treatment of cancer why did you feel the need to write about it i promised i would write you know i hate people writing about their illnesses and i just its awful and i really thought i would also no one asked me to do it there was no demand for this and then one day i just a sentence came into my head and the sentence was it all started with my balls its like the sentence you know all of ball all start and then once i wrote that i just for a month or so just had to it regularly. Other things that happened. That i had you know but a 1000 words and i thought well you know i read it over again and i just laughed at it and thought ive actually almost got rid of some of the anguish around you know some of us all. Task. Of all that youve writing about balls yeah some of the experience was grotesque and i thought if i published this sort of. Free me in some way that would be really over and it didnt work so i said to the lugger of yours remember that no just say im not sure this is any use. And then they they said that publishers and then of course everybody you know because i hadnt told people i went back to teach without telling everybody i was trying to have like a normal i was really sick we have like a normal person i was doing all my work and i was coming to be mean but i mean ive no reason. So the policy of the peace was sort of funny you know i also thought i was trying not to feel sorry for myself. Even during his Cancer Treatment tobin continued to shuttle between ireland and the us he continued teaching at new yorks Columbia University. I love Columbia University i love having a big library i love the Upper West Side of new york where nothing ever happens people talk about the city the doesnt sleep everything close about 9930 up there i mean a really has a sleeping at the place. 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