![]() I’m just quick to see the movie that has to do with contagion stories or quick to read, in a horrifying way, when there’s stories of epidemics around the world. ![]() Karen Thompson Walker: I guess I’m always… I’ve had a sort of, I don’t know, odd but I think common interest in contagion stories for a long time. I asked her what her starting point was for ‘The Dreamers.’ ![]() In both books, Thompson Walker sets up a kind of scientific experiment and then probes what happens with rigorous curiosity and an empathetic heart. A mysterious illness is sweeping through a college town, putting people into a deep sleep from which they might never awaken. Her second novel is called ‘The Dreamers.’ It’s quieter but just as devastating. In her debut novel, ‘The Age of Miracles,’ the Earth’s rotation on its axis slows and a whole cascade of ecological and human disasters follows. We’re going to listen back today to my 2019 interview with the novelist Karen Thompson Walker, who writes bestselling books of mystery and menace but also beauty and grace. The following transcript was created by a computer and edited by a volunteer:ĭave Miller: This is Think Out Loud on OPB. We talked to Thompson Walker about her book, “The Dreamers.” ![]() ![]() The disease causes people to fall into a seemingly endless sleep. Today, we revisit a conversation from Februwith Portland writer Karen Thompson Walker whose recent novel explores the terrifying possibility of a world altered by a highly contagious disease. ![]()
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