Hell is Other People
It’s the visceral connection we have to our bodies, and the startling physical reaction we have when talking about bodily functions. I like drawing the reader in so they can relate to the characters and to the story at a physical level. Even small things work, like a character cupping their hand to their mouth to check for bad breath. I’m obsessed with body image and the way it makes people behave. The extremes people will go to for what they think of as perfection, and the bigotry against those considered different. We can all relate to blood and disease, death, pain. Beginnings and endings, surprise births and terrible deaths.
Alan Kelly interviews Kaaron Warren.
Trouble with his tenses
Alexander Trocchi at The International Poetry Incarnation, Royal Albert Hall, London 11 June 1965 (via @darrananderson1).
Invisible editor
Granta interview Bill Morgan about editing the Kerouac-Ginsberg correspondence (extracted here): Kerouac started off saying the Beat Generation was beaten down and played out in the aftermath of WWII, and then later dropped that and said that the term ‘beat’ came from beatific. He got sick of the label and of so many people using […]
Coen Curiosity
By Robert O’Connor. Here’s an interesting coincidence that future interviewers of the Coen Brothers should ask about. I found it during the course of writing ‘St. Paul’s Gangster Era‘ and ‘The Big Man and the Cardinal.’ Joel and Ethan Coen are from St. Louis Park, immediately west of Minneapolis. There are two references, I think, […]