Interview At Bookslut

[snurri]

The new issue doesn't seem to be live yet, exactly, but it's there. Here's an excerpt:

Why Madison?

Because I went to school there (off and on) and lived there for about ten years. Because I used to work the brat stand at the Memorial Union terrace, and spent summers burning the hair off my arms and knuckles and smelling of pork and beer. Because when I think of directionless angst and emotional turmoil and a feeling of invulnerability I think of those years. Because Rush Limbaugh calls it the People's Republic of Madison and former gov Tommy Thompson once referred to it as "twenty square miles surrounded by reality." Because the statue on top of the capitol building has a badger on her head. Because the Midwest never gets any superheroes, and if you're going to call us "flyover country" then we ought to have someone in a spandex bodysuit up in the sky. Because the Madison I knew was made up of people and places that are no longer there, and fiction is a repository for misremembrances.

Comments

[experimeditor.livejournal.com]

Dude, I couldn't even answer that question because I live here . . . well done.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Distance gives perspective? I dunno :-)

[experimeditor.livejournal.com]

I think it's because of the haze over here :)