You remind me of Moby explaining why he named his album "Hotel". You might appreciate it, too.
"... why hotel? a variety of reasons, but here's one of them
hotels fascinate me in that they’re incredibly intimate spaces that are scoured every 24 hours and made to look completely anonymous.
people sleep in hotel rooms and cry in hotel rooms and bathe in hotel rooms and poo in hotel rooms and have sex in hotel rooms and start relationships in hotel rooms and end relationships in hotel rooms and etc and etc, but yet every time we check into a hotel room we feel as if we’re the first guest and we get very upset if there’s any remnant of a previous guests stay.
something about this idea, that these intimate spaces are wiped clean every 24 hours, fascinates me. that we enter a hotel room and it becomes our biological home for a while and then we leave.
in some ways it’s similar to the human condition. we exist and we strive and we love and we cry and we laugh and we run around and we sleep and we build things and we have sex and then we die and, not to sound depressing, the world is wiped clean of our biological presence. which, from my perspective, makes our brief biological time here all the more precious due to its relative brevity.
hotels in specific fascinate me in that so much effort is expended to maintain a perfect neutrality."
Love it. I also worked in hotels and find them and the staff fascinating. Do you know about this very cool old carriage house hotel where Jack London used to stay? https://wolfcreekinn.com/
Love, love, love! I want to read all these books. Also, I am still so obsessed with your gorgeous Atticus room and its little fireplace. I mean - this is what being a writer should be about. Period!
WOW! Kismet, mon ami! Happy reading. Report back.
You remind me of Moby explaining why he named his album "Hotel". You might appreciate it, too.
"... why hotel? a variety of reasons, but here's one of them
hotels fascinate me in that they’re incredibly intimate spaces that are scoured every 24 hours and made to look completely anonymous.
people sleep in hotel rooms and cry in hotel rooms and bathe in hotel rooms and poo in hotel rooms and have sex in hotel rooms and start relationships in hotel rooms and end relationships in hotel rooms and etc and etc, but yet every time we check into a hotel room we feel as if we’re the first guest and we get very upset if there’s any remnant of a previous guests stay.
something about this idea, that these intimate spaces are wiped clean every 24 hours, fascinates me. that we enter a hotel room and it becomes our biological home for a while and then we leave.
in some ways it’s similar to the human condition. we exist and we strive and we love and we cry and we laugh and we run around and we sleep and we build things and we have sex and then we die and, not to sound depressing, the world is wiped clean of our biological presence. which, from my perspective, makes our brief biological time here all the more precious due to its relative brevity.
hotels in specific fascinate me in that so much effort is expended to maintain a perfect neutrality."
https://moby.com/journal/hotel
Hey there chica! I'm reading All Fours. Also takes place in a hotel. I'm excited to hear more about your story!
Thinking about seeing characters through their jobs makes me wonder about my own character :)
I didn't realize that about All Fours! Will check it out.
Love it. I also worked in hotels and find them and the staff fascinating. Do you know about this very cool old carriage house hotel where Jack London used to stay? https://wolfcreekinn.com/
Oh wow! I stayed near there once years ago, but stupidly, did not go to this inn. My bad!! What a cool little piece of Oregon literary history.
I love it and now want to go to that hotel
It's a FANTASTIC hotel, Gaines. Do it!
Love, love, love! I want to read all these books. Also, I am still so obsessed with your gorgeous Atticus room and its little fireplace. I mean - this is what being a writer should be about. Period!
YES!
1. I love hotel novels
2. I had no idea the hotel novel genre existed
3. Now, thanks to you, MJ, I’ve got a cool new reading list
4. Read your post in my room in Hilton Imperial Hotel , Dubrovnik
5. Looking forward to reading Peak Season!
Wow, how did you get that gig? Pretty cool
It's the first year they're running the program. A call went out on Instagram, I think it was.
Ah, well I think my wife would kill me if I took off to do that for two weeks and left her with the kids!
And, if I'm being honest, I would miss them too.