Wednesday, June 10, 2009

God of Missed Connections at Canadian Literature

Evgenia Todorova at Canadian Literature kindly spent some time with me to talk about God of Missed Connections (and other stuff too). The interview is now up at their website. Here's a snippet.

"The politicizing of work tells me a lot about readers.... Writing is a funny thing; it doesn't really exist until it is out in the air, until other people have something to say about it. So many books just disappear. Maybe this book it will disappear too, I don't know. I guess I'm interested in that kind of stuff. So is this a political book? Maybe. (Laughter) I'll put it as a maybe."