To write a historical novel you really need to understand what was happening, what were people worried about, what were they thinking about, what were the issues of the day.
Click play to listen. Recorded on November 3, 2007.
Set against the backdrop of the 1918 flu epidemic — one of the most virulent that America ever experienced — and inspired by a little-known historical footnote regarding towns that quarantined themselves against it, Thomas Mullen’s powerful, sweeping first novel The Last Town on Earth is a tale of morality in an earlier time of upheaval. Mullen reads selections and takes questions from the audience.
