New Interview
July 7, 2010Henry Baum 1 Comment »There’s a new interview up with me by Todd Keisling, in which I get into my grand, unrealistic plans for the novel.
TK: Let’s talk about the writing thing. Why do you do it?
HB: I want to change how people think. I have grand megalomaniacal plans – most of which won’t play out. But there’s a reason that I write about megalomaniacal people. And I’m not really interested in writing about the small moments between people. Our world is collapsing at a fairly alarming rate – the oil spill is both a metaphor and direct evidence. I don’t think there’s time to pontificate about another relationship story. Big stuff is coming down, and I want to do some small part to get people to pay attention.
Read the whole thing.
July 8th, 2010 at 10:56 am
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