Answer to Question: "So, what do you write?"

I write fiction. This includes both the plot and character driven narratives we’ve come to define generally as “fiction” as well as a host of less refined, more prosaic “fictions” I casually refer to as bullshit. These have included: various forms of advertising, press releases, ghostwritten book revisions, political propaganda, and that veritable holy grail of petty bullshit, record reviews.

Suffice to say, my short stories are stymied, my longer projects have mostly repelled publishers, and some combination of lite writing +odd jobs pays my bills. I live in a world of so-called secret geniuses; each individually convinced their celebrity is imminent, and, in the meantime, justifying all manner of self-importance (and self-destruction) by citing such lofty ambitions. I’m not immune to this by any stretch, but at least I’m not a musician.

My Lit degree has long since disappeared into the vortex of some parental keepsake drawer, far enough away that I don’t have to see its parchment smirk whenever I ring up another Outkast CD, but close enough to transmit the occasional three-am “You should really consider graduate school” tweak.