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By Evan Schaeffer

STEVE ALMOND, INTERVIEWED . . . at Smokelong Quarterly about his new book, This Won't Take But a Minute, Honey --

Q: Your new book is two books in one, like a reversible rain coat! is small, light, slips in a pocket, is very fun to hold and read. How did the idea for this come about?    

A: So the first thing: I'm addicted to writing shorts. They offer alyric intensity that I'm always jonesing for, those sudden bursts of empathy. I wrote shitty poetry for years, and some of my shorts are actually the rescued remains of shitty poems. So I knew I wanted to gather those into a book someday. I also knew I wanted to write about what it's actually like to try to write, the psychological and emotional issues that people smack into. And I know about these because I've smacked into them over and over. The essays are basically intended to save other writers at the beginning of their careers from making the mistakes I did, over and over, for like ten years. I wanted them mashed together because I figured, hey, if I'm going to sit there and lecture people like I'm Mr. Know-It-All, I might as well put my own prose on the chopping block.

There's much more about Almond and his work in the full interview, conducted by Meg Pokrass and Tara Laskowski.

Full post as published by Notes from the (Legal) Underground on April 26, 2010 (boomark / email).