Award-winning director Remy Bazerque approached me about collaborating on adapting my short story Backgammon for film. Here he interviews me to get my perspective on the story.
I used to think I was born to write poetry because I was obsessed with the unspeakable. Talk was like skyscrapers, straight up stream-lined, while I hobbled through the alleys putting cobblestones and rubble in my mouth. But this! this prose! It goes to TOWN with the unspeakable. It’s full of killer clues and cries and uncontainabilities. A toolbox full of heartwrenches. It taught me stuff, bespoke some utternesses, made me stop and doff my cap.
Fabulous--and big congrats! I love good stories like this one emerging from, in my view anyway, the miracle that is Substack.
I used to think I was born to write poetry because I was obsessed with the unspeakable. Talk was like skyscrapers, straight up stream-lined, while I hobbled through the alleys putting cobblestones and rubble in my mouth. But this! this prose! It goes to TOWN with the unspeakable. It’s full of killer clues and cries and uncontainabilities. A toolbox full of heartwrenches. It taught me stuff, bespoke some utternesses, made me stop and doff my cap.