The lovely and smart Gay Degani asks me some fascinating questions at Flash Fiction Chronicles:
Gay Degani: Your stories are clear-eyed and lyrical with characters that provoke curiosity and concern. It’s easy to make a connection to them, their humanity, their strength, and their frailty. But there’s something else, something I find most intriguing about your writing.
Your work is subtle and sometimes the “meaning” seems just outside my reach—until I read the story again. Each new look produces a fresh nuance and I can’t quite figure out how you create something that circles back on itself the way “Swicks Rule” or “Baby, Baby” “Orlando” or “Maidenhead to Oxford” or “Moth Woman” do, and still satisfy the reader so thoroughly? How do you break the “rules” we take so seriously?
Kathy Fish: Thanks so much for the kind words, Gay. The simplest answer I can give is that the way I write is the way I think.
I like this Kathy. I like you. Great interview and I so enjoy, “The simplest answer I can give is that the way I write is the way I think.”
Aw, thanks Jules. And I think I owe you a photo of my writing space. I’ve overcome with shame at my writing space.
don’t be ashamed! send one! 🙂
Reblogged this on Kathy Fish and commented:
Re-posting to coincide with the re-release of Together We Can Bury It.
Reblogged this on Gently Read Literature.
Kathy, I didn’t know you posted this and I just posted it today. I think that’s all to the good, maybe reach more people, but if you want me to take it down I will.
Oh ha, no that’s quite all right. Thanks, Gay, for the interview and for re-posting!
I posted it on my blog. Forgot to say that.