Intrioview with Kevin McIlvoy
An excerpt from Intrioview with Kevin McIlvoy published at Waxwing:
Intrioview
Three remarkable books of unconventional fiction that are simply like nothing else published recently have created excitement that is growing all on its own: Lynette D’Amico’s Road Trip (Twelve Winters Press, 2015); David Rutschman’s Into Terrible Light (Forklift Books, 2017), and Joseph Scapellato’s Big Lonesome (Mariner Books, 2017). No sustained promotional effort has been launched, giving these books the long exposure that such works of fiction must have in order to gain greater attention from our U.S. reading audience, an audience always resistant, at first, to the unfamiliar. Wishing for Scapellato and Rutschman and D’Amico to stand in the light a little longer, I contacted the authors about doing this intrioview. Over a period of three months, I asked them to address three broad topics specifically relevant to their books: boldness, aspects of scale, and estrangement. The format is demanding, since it requires that each author must address the topics through comments upon the works of the other two; each then must address, as in a normal interview, comments upon her/his own work. I have tripled the labor for this trio of writers. They have responded with selfless enthusiasm. […continue reading here]
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