Interviews
Willie Smith is the author Oedipus Cadet (Black Heron Press, 1990), Dada After Math (One-Legged Cow Press, 2004), and literally hundreds of stories and poems virtually everywhere in the fucking literary world. This interview was conducted via e-mail from 26 January to 30 January 2011.
P. H. Madore: Why are you cunting?
Willie Smith: Is an email interview not good for you? Sorry, I'm just not good at the talking type interview, haven't done one in 20 years and I didn't like the experience or the result. So I'm not up for a phone-type interview. I think that's what you mean by podcast? Sorry I'm so ignorant about tech stuff. I'm not even sure what a podcast is... but I think it's done over the phone and then stored as an audio thing on a website? I'm really sorry for being so slow, man. But I am an old fuck and really not good at this new stuff. I prefer the old school written kind of an interview, although I'm not really much on interviews at all. I like to think mostly about the writing and the doing of it, which is hard enough for me. Talking I'm just not good at. It makes me nervous and I don't do a good job, so let's forget the talking approach; if the email approach doesn't interest you, that's fine, I'm OK with passing.
PHM: That was my first question.
Next question: did you read any contemporary novels in 2010 and, if so, what were they and what did you think of them?
