"I wasn't in any hurry," Berendt says, a wry smile creeping across his face. It took nearly a decade of painstaking research, interviews and writing to finish "City of Falling Angels," his follow-up book to the hugely successful "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." And if he hadn't had a deadline, he'd probably still be working on it. It's really no surprise, then, that Berendt writes with a similar fastidiousness. As he sits in the living room of his Upper West Side town house, he chooses his words carefully and gestures sparingly, as if he is being interviewed by a bank manager, not a reporter.īerendt's home, which took him years to renovate, is meticulously decorated and spotlessly clean, with a giant map of Central Park's Strawberry Fields - named in honor of John Lennon - mounted above the fireplace, pieces of art placed just-so on end-tables, and books neatly lining the shelves. He parts his silver hair in a perfect line and wears a crisp, blue button-down shirt. NEW YORK (AP) - John Berendt is a very deliberate man. Structure with action moving from scene to. Writers: extended dialogue, detailed descriptions, the imposition of a narrative I write in the form of what has been called, the New Journalism, or Narrative Major hallmarks of your writing style are? Now, The City of Falling Angels brings Venice aliveįor readers the way Midnight did for Savannah, Georgia. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil marked your style of nonfiction as What they meant was that the people I write about tend to be very strange.
Time magazine said I had become "a state-of-the-art weirdo magnet." My best guess is that what appeals to readers most in both books are theĬharacters. Have you been surprisedīy their success? What do you think attracts people to your work?
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and The City of Falling Angelsīoth multi-list bestsellers and widely acclaimed books. Interview John Berendt describes the stylistic links between Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and his more recent book, The City of Falling Angels, and the aspects of Venice he most enjoys after living there on and off for nine years.
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