Duchovny populates her fairy-tale-esque world with various mythical figures and traces her journey across time toward true love.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:Miss Subwaysis about a present-day couple who get involved in a wager with mythological figures.
What inspired you to write this story?DAVID DUCHOVNY:It all started around 1985.
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It seemed to be a very kind of dramatic and romantic setup.
It always stuck with me.
And I guess it took about 30 years to get it out on paper.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The inner monologues of the protagonist, Emer, are very believable.
How did you channel this female point of view?I dont know.
To me, thats what art is about.
Trying to grow empathy, really.
There are lots of statements on current pop culture in the book.
Are these your actual opinions?
In the past, ones readership would have had access to the Bible.
That would have been where the writer provided common ground to his readers.
Now I think its pop culture: Thats our shared Bible.
Im not a really good plotter or structural guy, so Ill get impatient.
You recorded the audiobook with your kids and former wife.
How was that?It was fun!
My daughter is acting now, and I thought, Shes SAG, I should give her a job.
Do you consider yourself a romantic?Yeah, I think so.
Im a softy that way, so there you have it.
