About Stewart O'Nan: Stewart O'Nan is an American novelist.
The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.
I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the reader.
You can't run from your roots.
Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.
No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.
My main question that I ask of my characters is, 'What does it feel like to be you? And how do you get through the day? Where do you find the hope and faith to endure getting through the days, and what are your days like?'
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.
Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I always loved space travel.
