Virgin Suicides Resources

Jeffrey Eugenides is on Facebook.

Sofia Coppola went bonkers for the novel.

Words like poetic, hypnotic, and haunting get used a lot when describing the language in this novel. This first review in the New York Times ups the ante and calls it "incantatory."

This New York Times reviewer admired the "lyrical charm" of Eugenides' prose, but thought the story was a little far-fetched. Really?

Dazed Digital gets to the nitty-gritty of the novel in this interview with the author.

The author chats it up with The Paris Review about the art of fiction, how he stopped being embarrassed about being from suburban Michigan, and why he smokes cigars to keep awake while writing.

Even Tavi Gevinson has an opinion about the novel.

The concept of suicide contagion has been found to be tragically real, especially among adolescents.

The movie trailer for Sofia Coppola's adaptation of the novel.

The author reminisces about writing The Virgin Suicides on the sly at work.

Eugenides and Jonathan Safran Foer get together to discuss what it's like to be a writer.

For some reason, there are countless YouTube reviews of the novel posted by teenage girls. We're guessing they can relate. Here's one of them.

The author talks with the BBC about how his grandparents' immigrant experience influenced his writing.

Eugenides says The Virgin Suicides was inspired by the collapse of Detroit's auto industry, and, subsequently, Detroit.

NPR's Terry Gross interviews the author.

One example of the book's cover art. Here's another.

A photograph of the author.

Sofia Coppola's take on the Lisbons. Do they look like what you imagined they looked like?

Eugenides accepting the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Middlesex.