Suzanne Collins as a rule does not do interviews, she has no social media presence to speak of, and does not feel the need or the special calling to share via pithy tweets her thoughts on the controversies of today’s new cycle (or her favorite new bistro’s signature cocktail). And she hasn’t, to my knowledge, explained this unusual behavior. What is curious is that all we know about her family is only the few sound-bites she has shared about her mother and father, websites devoted to such things cannot agree about her height (we’re talking about a disagreement of four inches), and there is some controversy about whether she is still married to the father of her children.
The only interview I found online that wasn’t a single question sound bite staged by Scholastic or a brief reading from a soon-to-be-released Hunger Games novel is the one above, in which she spoke to young fans about the recently published Catching Fire. We’ll be going through the transcript to this chat later in the week, to review it in light of Sunrise on the Reaper.
Yesterday I shared my seven reasons for thinking Sunrise, the second prequel and fifth novel, should be or just is the last in the Hunger Games series (and one reason it isn’t!). Tomorrow Elizabeth Baird-Hardy will explain just how far off I am in guessing that we’ve reached the end of Panem’s flat earth road. Until then, enjoy one of the few prolonged conversations with Suzanne Collins!
