Enough Envy to Go Around

In the course of a new interview with Harlan Coben, John Kenyon of Things I’d Rather Be Doing asks the author of The Woods and the Myron Bolitar series to identify the origin of his interest in Bolitar and sidekick Windsor “Win” Horne Lockwood III, and to say whether it was “particularly satisfying to scratch that itch with Promise Me” (2006). Coben responds:

Myron started off as my alter ego. It didn’t end up that way. We ended up being fairly different and somewhat envious of one another. I have what he wants--the house in the ’burbs, the kids. And he has what I want--his parents are still alive and he shares the kind of relationship with them that I imagined I’d have with mine if they hadn’t died young.

It was incredibly fulfilling to bring them back in Promise Me.

Read their whole exchange here.