| Interviews: All Things Considered Chat with Francesca Lia Block (1/3) | ||
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| Jacki Lyden, Robert Siegel, All Things Considered (NPR), August 30th, 1997 Robert Siegel, Host: This is All Things Considered. I'm Robert Siegel. Jacki Lyden, Host: And I'm Jacki Lyden. The characters in Francesca Lia Block's young adult fiction live in an acid-colored fantasy land called Shangri L.A. Witch Baby and Weetzie Bat carry plastic palm tree wallets and tomahawks, eat cheap cheese and bean burritos at places like El Coyote, or get something called a macro-erotic at I Love Juicy on Sunset Boulevard. They have unusual families, gay or extended or split. Block has written a series of Weetzie Bat books, but the 34-year-old writer's latest work is a collection called "Girl Goddess #9". Girls of all ages, three to young adulthood, learn about love and redemption and self-acceptance overall. And they have names out of a modern-day fairy tale, like Peachy Pie and Tweety Sweet Pea, lady ivory and Tuck Budd. Francesca Lia Block, Author, "Girl Goddess #9": I've always been fascinated with names. I think names carry a great deal of power, even on a spiritual level. I think this idea of if you know someone's true name, you know, you have some understanding of who they are. And so, I love names and I love poetry and sounds and imagery. So, I think that has to do with it. And I like to find names in unusual places. Like Weetzie, the name of the character in Weetzie Bat, was on a car license plate that I saw when I was 16-years-old. And I look at graffiti and signs and just unusual places to find names. |
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