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Christian Bauman is most recently the author of In Hoboken. Condition of the Show: Contending with contentious Midtown diners. Author: Christian Bauman Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Correspondent: You have this particular rock n roll novel dwelling upon Hoboken, as well as Mona Smith, who is this Erica Jong-like figure, who is the mother of Thatcher. But I wanted to ask you about this. Because it s very fascinating to me. I have the belief that if you write a rock n roll novel, there needs to be some additional element. Some additional hook. Because if you dwell too much on rock n roll music, well, it s going to possibly be something of a circlejerk. So I wanted to ask you. Was this a consideration in setting this book in Hoboken? The Hoboken aspect came first? What happened here? Bauman: Yeah, I think the Hoboken aspect came first. Well, first of all, I should point out that everyone keeps calling it a rock n roll novel. It is actually a folk novel. So we should just be clear here. There s a lot more Woody Guthrie here than anything else. But it s a good point. You know, the whole thing I wanted to do, in as far as I wanted to anything and it didn t just happen the way it happened I was trying very hard this time to do two things. One was to write about a place. A very specific place to the point where the place became one of the characters in the book. And of those places where I ve either lived or been alive in my life, Hoboken was one of them that stood out as a good place to go. And the other one was that I really wanted to try and write an ensemble novel to the best of my ability. And I kind of failed in that aspect.