Hunting Mythical Monsters 'At The Water's Edge'

Hunting Mythical Monsters 'At The Water's Edge' At the Water's Edge By Sara Gruen Purchase BookPurchase close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Gruen tells NPR's Scott Simon that the Loch Ness Monster is just sort of looming in the background of her story, "and of course it's metaphoric for sort of the obvious things like Hitler, and of course what happened to some of the characters, but it's largely indicative of the monsters within us, and recognizing these monsters. it's ruined, and I love ruined castles better than I love intact castles, because with intact castles you don't know what's been patched, what's been repainted, what's real, what's original. I get to keep doing what I love to do, and I'm going to — If I were writing thinking about the audience and thinking about sales, I wouldn't turn out good stories, and the thing I love about writing fiction is allowing the characters to take over and going in unexpected directions and really just kind of channeling the story that comes to me so that I get into a place where I feel like I'm recording instead of creating and I have to be unaware of the entire world when I'm doing that, so no.