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| Marc Phillips recently discussed The Legend of Sander Grant with Catherine Lu on Houston Public Radio's The Front Row. Listen to the full interview below. |
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Marc Phillips lives and writes in Texas most of the time. His poetry, short stories, essays and feature articles have been in print since the early 90s. He splits his time between the typewriter, the table saw, and a small fishing boat. Purpose: "I cannot escape the desire to lift the curtain a bit on the phantasmagoria at the periphery of our workaday lives. With fiction, if it doesn’t have some element of magic—some aspect of the supernatural, the unexplained, or the incredible—then someone else will have to write it. I’m no good at being normal, so tales of normal things won’t ring true from me. The challenge is to transmit my weirdness into your head as though it were historical fact. The morning I awoke to write this book, I had a choice. It would be about tiny aliens who perch on the very edges of our feet while we sleep, or it would be about Giants. Giants seemed easier to explain. And it was one word. You tell people you’re working on a book, they get curious. A book about what? Giants. Conversation over and I can get back to work. Though, when people ask me now, I tell them it’s a story about cattle ranchers in East Texas. Because, if by the end of the book my reader is still thinking it’s about giants, I haven’t done my job very well." |
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