{"id":8005,"date":"2019-02-20T07:41:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T14:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/?p=8005"},"modified":"2019-02-20T07:41:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T14:41:13","slug":"on-wild-life-teaching-flash-an-interview-with-josh-denslow-at-smokelong-quarterly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/?p=8005","title":{"rendered":"On Wild Life & Teaching Flash: An Interview with Josh Denslow at Smokelong Quarterly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Many thanks to Josh Denslow (author of the soon-to-be-released collection, Not Everyone is Special<\/a>), for this fun interview at Smokelong Quarterly<\/a>. Josh asked great questions! Here’s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

“Let\u2019s shift gears and talk about one of my favorite subjects in writing: Humor. You write some truly powerful stories, but you\u2019re also slyly funny as well. I especially like how you set expectations in story titles and then spin us around. In particular stories like \u201cEverything\u2019s Shitty at Price King\u201d and \u201cI Have Not Pushed Back My Cuticles With An Orange Stick Since The Nixon Administration\u201d can knock the wind out of you partly because you aren\u2019t expecting it. How much of a role does humor play in your process? And just because I\u2019m in awe, how do you consistently go against all expectations in your stories?”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“I love that you say I\u2019m \u201cslyly funny.\u201d I feel like I have an odd sense of humor. More weird than outright hilarious. But thanks. And humor adds so much humanity to stories and characters. It makes the sad parts sadder. I think one\u2019s title is a great way to subvert the reader\u2019s expectations. It\u2019s a means of establishing voice or tone from the get-go. And then when the shift happens, the underlying grief or sadness is revealed, it\u2019s all the more effective.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Read the whole interview at Smokelong Quarterly.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

You may purchase a signed copy of Wild Life: Collected Works HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n

Or order it via Matter Press<\/a> or Amazon.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to Josh Denslow (author of the soon-to-be-released collection, Not Everyone is Special), for this fun interview at Smokelong Quarterly. Josh asked great questions! Here’s an excerpt: “Let\u2019s shift gears and talk about one of my favorite subjects in writing: Humor. You write some truly powerful stories, but you\u2019re also slyly funny as well. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[347,356,430,442,505,647,742,922,1076],"class_list":["post-8005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","tag-flash-fiction","tag-flash-fiction-workshops","tag-humor","tag-interviews-2","tag-josh-denslow","tag-matter-press","tag-not-everyone-is-special","tag-smokelong-quarterly","tag-wild-life-collected-works-from-2003-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}