I know, you would assume or you would imagine that that might be the case but I'm actually re-reading Bird Box right now for the first time in a few years, just because the movie's coming out and I'm talking about it more again with people. Because sometimes you wonder if people are just tired of talking about this thing they wrote decades ago. It never gets old talking about this book to me and I hope it never does. And while Josh is also the lead singer and guitarist for The High Strung, whose song 'The Luck You Got' is the theme song of Showtime's Shameless, it's his terrifying debut novel Bird Box - which was nominated for the Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the James Herbert Award, and has been adapted into a Netflix movie starring Sandra Bullock, that we're going to dig into today because I am dying to talk about it. Note: Text has been edited and may not match audio exactly.Ībby West: Hi, I'm Audible editor Abby West and I'm excited to talk with Josh Malerman, author of Bird Box, Unbury Carol, Black Mad Wheel, and Inspection, among other works. Listen in as Malerman talks about the evolution of his intense story and what it's like to have your work adapted - first for audio and then for the screen. Thankfully, he is just as happy to talk about it and did just that with editor Abby West before the movie launched and became a cultural touchpoint. People couldn't stop talking about the dystopian nightmare that started with Malerman's brainchild. And when that movie came out on Netflix in December 2018, it was seemingly everywhere. When Audible editor Laura Michaels reviewed Josh Malerman's thrilling Bird Box in 2014, she raved that 'this chilling debut is so well-written, and so suspenseful I had a very difficult time putting it down.' It was that skillful teasing out of the story behind why his main character Malorie was fleeing with two children, down a river, all blindfolded that not only garnered Malerman literary prize nominations for the work, but also had it optioned for a movie before it was even published.

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