Interview

http://www.twodollarradio.com Shelf Unbound: The OrangeEats Creeps is a relentless existentialist nightmare told from the point of view of a nameless female hobo vampire junkie. I’ll pull out the key...

Shelf Unbound: What first planted the seed of Tinkers in your head? Paul Harding: My maternal grandfather’s stories about growing up in Maine. Like George Washington Crosby, his father...

Shelf Unbound: What was the genesis of the story “Miracle Boy”? Pinckney Benedict: “Miracle Boy” came about primarily as an evocation of a couple of terrors from my childhood....

Shelf Unbound: Why did you want to tell the story of your grandmother’s drug and alcohol addiction, given that, as you said in a recent issue of People, you...

FSG: Unlike most books, The Silent History started as an app. How was it conceived? And what were the goals of putting it out as an app? Eli Horowitz:...

Shelf Unbound: How did you decide to write this book together, and what was your writing process? Eli Horowitz: I had worked with Chris on his amazing novel The...

Shelf Unbound: How did you decide to write this book together, and what was your writing process? Carol Guess: Kelly and I were having coffee together (we both teach...

Shelf Unbound: How did you decide to write this book together, and what was your writing process? Gavin Kovite: This is our first novel to be published, but not...

Shelf Unbound: Tell us about the two mothers in this novel.  Joel L.A. Peterson: I wrote Dreams of My Mothers to tell a remarkable story of the journey of...

Shelf Unbound: What’s a typical starting point for you in writing a story, for example the boy coming of age in the title story, with typewriter and computer metaphors...