It was nonfiction, writing using the fictional techniques novelists and short story writers would use: ample description, transitions, a lot of dialogue.īut I would focus on one chapter, not knowing where it was going. Then I would do a chapter, approaching it as if it were an article for a magazine. Next time, Sandy, I won't wait four years to read books you recommend.ĭave: What was the process like, creating this book?īerendt: I would focus on something - a person. Two days after meeting Berendt, I watched that same old friend get married - just up the coast from Savannah. I read it, finally, and I loved it I was engrossed.
They've given the author two keys to the city - in case he loses the first one, I guess.Ī childhood friend who now lives in Atlanta had recommended the book to me years ago, but I resisted until a couple weeks before this interview, at which point I really had no choice but to read it. Savannah's annual tourist traffic has increased by 46% since Berendt's exposé was published. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, it spent more time on the New York Times Bestseller list than any previous fiction or nonfiction title, ever - and that's really just the start.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, his first and (thus far) only book, is an insightful, intelligent, fun-to-read story of eccentricity and murder in Savannah, Georgia. Finally, when he'd digested enough information about our peculiar corner of the bookselling world, we talked about his book. Afterwards, we walked over to the Annex and for fifteen minutes I couldn't get a question in edgewise he wanted to know anything and everything about Internet bookselling.
Before this interview, he sat across Tenth Avenue on the third floor of our City of Books location and signed first editions of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (he knew the firsts by sight the cloth binding is always green, he informed us, not black like the later editions). Not that this should have surprised me, but the journalist in him doesn't turn off.
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