Liska Jacobs's "The Worst Kind of Want," the movie

Featured at My Book, The Movie: The Worst Kind of Want: A Novel by Liska Jacobs.

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When I start a book, I make a mood board and cast all the characters—but I never use actors because I’m so easily influenced by what roles they’ve played. I use models, usually from old Vogues or those cheap hairstyle magazines you can buy at Walgreens. It’s only later that I start to think who could pull off the role.

For Cilla, I think Chloë Sevigny or Maggie Gyllenhaal would be phenomenal.

And Donato, well, it would have to be...[read on]

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My Book, The Movie: The Worst Kind of Want.

--Marshal Zeringue