.emmastraub remembers her father, horror icon Peter Straub
, he quickly thumbed to the back and asked, “What page do I die on?” This was a joke and also not a joke. In the book, he dies on page 301. In real life, off the page, my father, Peter Straub,Leonard dies in his bedroom at home with his daughter, her stepmother, and his nurse. In real life,
My father had stories about meeting Spielberg. He and Steve went to Los Angeles to meet with Spielberg, who sent a limo to pick them up. It sounds to me that my father, high on success but also probably cocaine, was being a bit of a snob about the whole thing, wanting to be wined and dined but also thinking himself very much above the Hollywood scene.
The book was born from the visits with my father. The protagonist, Alice, is visiting her father, Leonard, in the hospital. He is a science-fiction writer famous for a 1980s time-travel novel that got turned into a long-running television series. The characters are not me and my father except when they are. They live on 95th Street. Our house, the one with the basement and theposter, was on 85th Street. Those are different zip codes. None of the facts are real, but the feelings all are.
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