![]() ![]() You know, there's a lot of forms, a lot of hoops that people have to jump through. ![]() I don't really know how it - you never know how it works. Ma: There’s been some interest from television for, like, a TV show or something. RM: Have there been any overtures from TV or the movies to make another version of this? Ling Ma: They were some starting points, for sure. ![]() Richmond magazine: You’ve mentioned that the TV series “Mad Men” and “The Walking Dead” were influences when you were writing the book. Here, the writer talks about her influences, her next book and the end of her novel. Ma, a Chinese immigrant who grew up in Utah, Kansas and Nebraska, will receive the Cabell First Novelist Award from Virginia Commonwealth University on Nov. The book won the Kirkus Prize last year and was listed as one of the notable books of 2018 by The New York Times. ![]() “It's about very ordinary circumstances, except that it's happening in the middle of the world ending,” Ma explains during an interview from her Chicago home, “but there’s a lot of mundanity in that, too.” Fortunately, readers and critics have found Ma’s writing neither routine nor mundane. As she attempts to go about her daily routine, the city around her descends into chaos and decay. Have you ever felt that another day at your job would be the end of the world? It’s that realization that slowly creeps up on Candace Chen, the main character of “ Severance,” the first novel from author Ling Ma. Ling Ma is the author of "Severance," described as an apocalyptic satire. ![]()
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