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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Going underground

Interview with John Wray (author of the freshly released Lowboy) now showing on Dogmatika (alongside badass writing from Cathi Unsworth and Alan Kelly).

"In much the same way that Canaan’s Tongue was an exorcism of my anger at the American military-industrial apparatus, Lowboy was begun in the hope of channeling my anxiety about climate change into something outside of myself, and thereby loosening its grip on me somewhat. I was having recurring nightmares about it at the time that I began the book, and they did, in fact, grow steadily less frequent as I worked. During daylight hours I’m still shitting my pants, however."