This: Sammie Bell, the heroin in the story has been compared to Holden Caulfield. Character and plot are necessarily enmeshed.
Characterization is merely the observable qualities of a person, but essential character is revealed in the choices a person makes under pressure.
Tangible details and actions are what make a character real and alive. This: What is more important in a story, plot or character?īL:For me the two are intrinsically linked.
We all worry that we’ll end up like our parents but it’s that much worse when you have a sly streak and the people in charge are a couple of crooks. What can readers expect to find when they pick it up?īillie Livingston: French flaps and profanity! The story is about a child of con artists trying to figure out if she is genetically doomed to be a hustler. This Magazine: Your new book One Good Hustle is due out July 24th. We recently spoke to Livingston about her upcoming novel, This Magazine’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt, and what it takes to make it in the literary world. Livingston has been published in many of Canada’s top magazines, including the Walrus, Toronto Life, Giest, sub-TERRAIN and our very own This Magazine. Her YA novella, The Trouble with Marlene has been optioned for a feature film by director, Ana Valine of Rodeo Queen Pictures. Her recent story collection, Greedy Little Eyes, was cited by the Globe and Mail as one of 2010’s best books and subsequently won the CBC’s Bookie Award as well as the Danuta Gleed Literary Awardfor Best Short Story Collection. Livingston has been shortlisted for the Journey Prize for fiction and the Pat Lowther Award for best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. Her other books include Greedy Little Eyes, Cease To Blush, Going Down Swinging, The Chick at the Back of the Church and The Trouble with Marlene. She was also won the fiction category of our Great Literary Hunt contest in 2000. Livingston has lived all around the world from Toronto and Vancouver to Japan, Germany, England and the U.S. Photo by Braden Haggerty.īillie Livingston, award winning Canadian author and poet, is set to release her latest novel, One Good Hustle, which follows the life of Sammie Bell-a young woman who fears she may spend her life as a hustler, like her parents. Billie Livingston author of the upcoming novel One Good Hustle.
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