Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Jeffrey Eugenides' babysitter once told him that she and her sisters all attempted suicide, and he took the idea and ran with it for his first novel. (Source)
Even though he has fancy digs, Eugenides likes to write in cramped, boring spaces. (Source)
James Franco is a fan of the novel. Do with that what you will… (Source)
The Jennifer Aniston/Justin Bateman comedy The Switch was based on Eugenides' short story "The Baster," which appeared in The New Yorker magazine in 1996.
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The author admitted to an interviewer that he's had sex on the roof a few times. But it was a flat roof, not a peaked roof like the Lisbon house. Don't try this at home, Shmoopers. (Source)