Nearly Unavoidable and Never Ever Cool: An Interview with Dave Housley by Jen Michalski
The biggest challenge for me was trying to pull all those various threads back together again in a way that seemed more or less realistic and also satisfying.
The biggest challenge for me was trying to pull all those various threads back together again in a way that seemed more or less realistic and also satisfying.
Stories are always about trouble.
Anyone who has read and thought about language knows that we are approximating things even when we try and describe it precisely.
I asked myself why museums are never in close proximity to dollar stores.
Unlike other genres (think sonnet; think most film), [the novel] is a genre that doesn’t really know what it is and yet is committed to finding out, that is always trying to figure and break out of its own generic constraints.
The theme of immigration runs through the trilogy.
I knew early on that I was writing a book of stories about mothering and motherhood—and about how the mythology and cultural expectations of motherhood affect women and girls.
Ithaca is a very special place to those who know it. Writing the book became a way to celebrate its singularity
I always begin my day with 20-30 minutes of freewriting.
It’s a laugh, but not so funny these days when an algorithm designed by an invisible hand can decide whether someone goes home or stays in jail. For the characters in my book, false narratives can be deadly.