You go to your high school reunion, you don’t learn anything. You talk to people online you wouldn’t see in the real world.Īnd then again, I was shattered by the price we pay for that connection. I was also enamored with the beauty of all this connection. I was aware of the dark side, the limitations of a Like-it-or-Don’t-Like approach to interaction, a disintegration of grey areas. Social media was important in every domain of my life. I was a journalist and now it wasn’t enough to write an article. I quit smoking and it was comforting to hear so much encouragement online. Here I was, participating more and more in social media. But you know, when it’s your world, at your time, it’s yours. It’s timeless and timely because every generation deals with social evolution. The other answer to this question is more analytical, about my passion for cultural shifts, the way my heart beats when I read about some new study on how social media impacts our brains, our hearts, the impossibility of knowing how children will be different from growing up with iPads. This is where Joe was, from inception, someone who loved his books and his movies, someone who felt it all.
I wanted to keep that passion for the arts alive, thriving in my mind, in my work. (Moms: Why do they get to be right so much?) And I wanted to pour myself into something new, a creative adventure.
My mom was right when she said that I should write something. You try to remember the basic rules of life, which is, first and foremost, as my dad always said, that it’s for the living. Anyone who’s ever lost anyone knows about this. Someone like that slips away, and there is a hole in your world. Towards the end, when cancer was winning, he was on YouTube, finding new bands, raising his voice in song, going to Monterey Pop. His voice and his contagious passion for all creations in literature and TV, song and film, Tolkien and Led Zeppelin, Stephen King and Sex and the City. There is the personal truth about my life. There are always three ways for me to answer this question. When someone asks about my inspiration for Joe Goldberg, I always pause.
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