Never The Same Novel Twice: An Interview with Writer Tom Grimes
Tom Grimes is, for my money anyway, the greatest living underground novelist in America today.
Tom Grimes is, for my money anyway, the greatest living underground novelist in America today.
"The book business is always on the brink of failing. Even in the 1940s, people were talking about the end of books." An interview with Lee Montgomery.
"When the album was ready to be released, we were prepared to be shouted down by every closet racist in the country."
"I mean, the erasure and marginalization of all people of color...in what we call the canon is well-documented. It really doesn't come as any surprise."
"I sacrifice everything for my music. I lost my wife to this music." An interview with Tech N9ne.
"That was one of the main things you needed a record company for—so that you could be in every Tower Records. But, obviously, Tower Records is gone."
Although John Brandon is an MFA graduate of the writing program at Washington University in St. Louis, while drafting the novel Arkansas, he "worked at a lumber mill, a windshield warehouse, a Coca-Cola distributor, and several small factories producing goods made of rubber and plastic."