Diaries Magazine
I don't know if I've mentioned before that I've been on an almost decade long strike against present-day literary fiction novels. Compared to books by William S. Burroughs, Virginia Woolf, or Emily Bronte, everything written nowadays seems amateurish and forced (my own novel included, mind you). But I read a very new novel titled Today & Tomorrow by Ofelia Hunt after seeing a blurb about it in a magazine and I was blown away. The blurb mentioned that the female protagonist has two boyfriends, "Aaron, whom she just met, and Erik, whose name is actually Todd." The fact that she has two boyfriends is not the point of the novel - the point is the fragility of her mental stability and how we can't be certain if she's ever actually telling the truth as her favorite pastime is making up tall tales with her grandfather - but the fact that she calls one of them whatever the fuck she feels like calling him appealed to me because the female protagonist in my own novel has a neighbor named Aubrey, whom she doesn't much care for, and she refuses to call Aubrey anything but Bob. Today & Tomorrow, I believe, is highly stylistic and the main character makes genius observations about people's "eye-shaped eyes" and "People-flocks" that "move together and apart and each person, whether together or apart, is probably the same person." And there's more to it than all of that, too, of course, but anyway, Ofelia Hunt said on her blog that she was going to start interviewing people and I sent an email asking if I could be considered for such a thing. By some strange stroke of luck I got an email back saying yes. And so my interview is up today at ofeliahunt.com. In it I give synopses about novels I wrote in junior high, racial stuff, how annoying I was as a kid, vandalism, child molesters, why London is better than any city in America, and way too many other personal things. So read it and leave a comment to tell me whatcha think...