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Christopher Moore, Author
Episode 724th March 2023 • This is Some Scene • James Ippoliti
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2009 interview with author Christopher Moore. From Wikipedia: Christopher Moore is an American writer of  comic fantasy.

An only child, Moore learned to amuse himself with his imagination. He loved reading and his father brought him plenty of books from the library every week. He started writing around the age of twelve and realized that this was his talent by the time he was 16, and he began to consider making it his career.

Moore's novels typically involve conflicted everyman characters struggling through supernatural or extraordinary circumstances. With the possible exceptions of FoolThe Serpent of VeniceSacré Bleu, and Shakespeare for Squirrels: A Novel, all his books take place in the same universe and some characters recur from novel to novel.

According to his interview in the June 2007 issue of Writer's Digest, the film rights to Moore's first novel, Practical Demonkeeping (1992), were purchased by Disney even before the book had a publisher. In answer to repeated questions from fans over the years, Moore stated that all of his books have been optioned or sold for films, but that as yet "none of them are in any danger of being made into a movie."

Moore has named Kurt VonnegutDouglas AdamsJohn SteinbeckTom RobbinsRichard BrautiganRobert BlochRichard MathesonJules VerneRay BradburyH. P. LovecraftEdgar Allan Poe and Ian Fleming as key influences on his writing.

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