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Dazed & Confused Interview

The new issue of Dazed & Confused magazine has an interview with Bret in it. Their website has some excerpts from it.

D&C: Is the character of Robby your way of looking at your own childhood and seeing yourself as a father?

BEE: Robby was me, because I've never been a father. In the book, Bret isn't a great father and I was probably thinking about mine when I wrote about him, and thinking about myself as the son, as Robby, witnessing my parents' strained marriage. Ultimately, it's also amusing to me, but in a sad way, that none of that was supposed to be talked about. My impetus for the book was to write about ghouls and monsters. It wasn't supposed to end up being an investigation into my past. I was thinking back on what has really scared me.

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