""I was interested in why that occurred and what it said about us in America in particular culturally," Nelson tells Inverse in an interview ahead of the release of his new novel, Superhero (out in bookstores now). "And so I just wanted to write a novel that took place in this very specific milieu, but used that to address much larger cultural issues and fractures in our country.""
""As a novelist, you're the costumer, you're the director of photography, you're the writer, you're the casting director," he continues. "Everything is completely under your control, and that's an interesting challenge. I'm not always a control freak. I love being an actor for somebody else's show, and that's also very exciting to me, but I like to mix it up.""
Tim Blake Nelson has long been interested in the superhero movie phenomenon, dating back to a role in 2008's The Incredible Hulk. He witnessed two decades of superhero films becoming central to cultural consciousness. Superhero follows fictional A-list star Peter Compton, who signs onto a superhero film to boost his profile and whose disastrous on-set behavior goes viral, destabilizing production. The novel presents concentrated reality drawn from direct experience and reliable sources. The work uses a specific entertainment setting to address larger American cultural issues and fractures.
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