Thanks to Darq for the heads up.
GQ: What inspired you to sit down and write this book?
McGreevy: A deeply, deeply abnormal brain. I reached a point in my relationship with my own work—I was in graduate school for an M.F.A. at the time—when I realized I wasn't very good at realism. And so I wanted to do something that had a level of imagination I found more compelling, but still anchor it in a world that was as familiar to me as possible. And so I thought, all right, I'm just gonna take a shitload of monsters and stick 'em in my high school.
GQ: So the Hemlock Grove school is literally based on your high school?
McGreevy: Inspired by, I'd say. Actually, the town ends up being a sort of Through the Looking Glass version of Pittsburgh, where I'm from. The economic history of the town reflects the economic history of Pittsburgh, which did transition from heavy misery into healthcare and biotechnology, and does have a fairly significant class divide, which is really exhibited with the two protagonists, Peter and Roman. In Pittsburgh traditionally, the poorer you were, the closer you lived to the river and the further you were in upper management, the higher you were on the hill. And there was actually an equalizer after that because the highest thing on the hill was the cemetery.
Source: Full Article @ gq
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