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What's the elevator pitch for your book?
My Heart Is An Idiot (selected as one of Amazon's Best Books of the Month) consists of 16 very personal essays about love
and adventures on the road.
What's on your nightstand table?
Roughing It by Mark Twain and The Lost Jewels of Nabooti by R.A.
Montgomery
Favorite books of all time?
Forced Entries by Jim Carroll, The 21 Balloons by William Pene
Dubois, Burn Collector by Al Burian, Saguaro by Carson Mell, No One Belongs
Here More Than You by Miranda July
Important
book you never read?
The Bible
Book that changed your life?
The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
Book that
made you want to become a writer?
A Relative Stranger by Charles
Baxter.
Favorite books as a child?
The 21 Balloons by William Pene Dubois. I loved the book so much that
I named my production company 21 Balloons Productions (21balloons.com). Into The Dream by William Sleator was another favorite book as a
kid.
What's
your most memorable author moment?
Having one of my favorite writers--Miranda July--surprise me
at one of my readings in L.A. Also, having my beloved writing mentor Charles
Baxter surprise me at a reading I did last year in Minneapolis.
What talent or superpower would you like to
have (not including flight or invisibility)?
The ability to make any piece of fruit perfectly ripe.
What are
you obsessed with now?
The web series "Tarantula" by
writer/filmmaker/animator/musician Carson Mell. Here's the first episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGu3RnUFzgo&feature=relmfu
What are you stressed about now?
The Detroit Tigers and the AL Central pennant race.
What are
you psyched about now?
Finally getting a chance to share My Heart Is An Idiot with my
friends, acquaintances, and strangers after 5 years of working on it!
What's
your most prized/treasured possession?
My silver necklace--I traded a car for it when I lived in New
Mexico!
Author
crush?
Anna Stothard (author of The Pink Hotel, among others, out in 2013
from Macmillan)
Pen Envy - book you wish you'd written?
The Ice Opinion by Ice T
What's
next for you?
Heading to 79 cities this fall on the My Heart Is An Idiot book
tour! Can't wait to see some old friends and make some new ones. http://www.myheartisanidiotbook.com/tour/
Favorite line = "What's
your name?"
Procrastination = Reading NYTimes.com
Temptation = Whiskey
Vice = Women
Collecting? = Documentary films, cult
classic movies on VHS, and my favorite authors' books.
