I had the best time doing an Instagram Live with Wally Lamb who is the author of six
New York Times best-selling novels:
I’ll Take You There,
We Are Water,
Wishin’ and Hopin’,
The Hour I First Believed,
I Know This Much is True, and
She’s Come Undone.
I Know This Much is True and
She’s Come Undone were both selected for Oprah’s Book Club. Lamb also edited
Couldn’t Keep It to Myself and
I’ll Fly Away, two volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution which is a women’s prison in Connecticut where he has been a volunteer facilitator for the past seventeen years.
I Know This Much is True was first published in 1998, and has now been turned into an HBO original limited series which just aired. Wally and I talked about what drew him to write these characters originally, his curiosity about and research into mental illness, and being part of a fifteen year project to turn his writing into film.
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