Deborah Treisman interviews the writer Han Ong about “I Am Pizza Rat,” his story from the October 23, 2023, issue of The New Yorker.
I took the basic outline of “I Am Pizza Rat” from an unproduced play of mine called “Great Lives,” written in 2016. In the play—which takes its title from the BBC podcast, which is also name-checked in the story—a middle-aged, failed writer moves home to the West Coast from New York City to take care of an ailing father. The father has dementia or Alzheimer’s—it’s not yet clear which; at any rate, it’s his mind that’s failing. That outline got me started.
There are bedraggled, embittered fathers in two early plays of mine: one who deserts his family and is discovered, years later, having hanged himself in a flophouse, in “The Chang Fragments”; and an old Filipino who is traced by his abandoned son to a home for aged Jews, in “Swoony Planet.” A note about “The Mikado”: it’s my favorite Gilbert and Sullivan, as it is for the father in the story.
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