A great book is like the memory of an excellent conversation: it lasts and returns in intangible ways for years and shifts your thinking.
My beloved Current Affairs does these “min-terviews” every week, and it was my turn. I was asked about the state of America, Jason Momoa (okay, I wasn’t asked about him, but I included him in an answer because, well, Jason Momoa), and publishing. Along the way, I got a tough question about my habit of eating kittens (see the above pic). I tried to wiggle out of an awkward situation, and failed.
But it’s still a great interview, short and funny. If you like it, please subscribe to Current Affairs, and you’ll get their updates in your inbox plus the gorgeous print magazine.
This, by the way, is how you lull a kitten into a false sense of security before you eat it: you hold it like a baby and rock it until it gets a little drowsy and comfortable. And then…
Photos of me and Kitty Strife (now mostly grown up) by Liz Baudler.