Then she pored over her short stories and chose a tale that also takes place in L.A., but during the punk rock scene of the early 1980s. She finally put aside that novel set in Los Angeles in the 1920s. “It’s less intellectual and much more emotional.”įitch blamed the seven-year gap between novels mainly on a book she was writing that didn’t jell.
“They appeal to the part of the human being who understands music, who understands painting,” she said, sitting near a shiny black piano and a giant abstract, poured acrylic painting. “Metaphors appeal to you in a non-rational way,” Fitch said in her Silverlake home, where she has lived since the birth of her 16-year-old daughter, Allison.īarefooted and wearing jeans, long wheat-blond hair parted slightly off-center, Fitch meditated on a question before answering. During a recent interview, Fitch revealed some of the philosophy behind her writing and why she loves teaching at USC College’s Master of Professional Writing program. Those passages from “Paint It Black” offer insight into the protagonist, Josie Tyrell, who’s forced to confront her artist boyfriend’s suicide. She looked at the coffin, lying there like a giant question mark. She felt bluish white and raw, like an Egon Schiele woman � Michael’s favorite artist. 18, Fitch’s figurative language elevates her writing to a fine art. In her anticipated second novel, “Paint It Black,” (Little, Brown and Co., 2006) to be released Sept. “Metaphorical writing, to me, tells you more about both the phenomenon you are observing and about the bigger world,” said Fitch, who began teaching at USC College after the success of her debut novel “White Oleander” (Little, Brown and Co., 1999), chosen for the Oprah Winfrey book club and adapted into a movie with Michelle Pfeiffer. Janet Fitch weaves metaphor into her storytelling like Vincent van Gogh fuses bold, swirling brushstrokes into his oil paintings.
18, wants her students in the USC College’s Master of Professional Writing program to learn from her mistakes as a writer. Novelist Fitch, whose poetic “Paint It Black” will be released Sept.
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