I never learned how to text with my thumbs - I use my forefinger. There is not a lot of negative space in the Notes app.

I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone I have many back problems. Where do you write? Do you frequent coffee shops - a fictional Cathedral features in “Big Swiss” - or what’s your process? I read you type with one finger into your phone. But she moved - she just bought a house in Mexico. Her name is Sissy and she lived in Hudson for probably 15 years. I moved out just before the pandemic.Īre you still friends with the woman who owned the house? I used a lot of real life with her permission. My room had lots of lead paint chipping off and it would land everywhere. It was great, it was paradise, and it was crumbling as well. That 300-year-old unheated Dutch farmhouse in “Big Swiss” that is totally falling apart, with flaking lead paint everywhere and a beehive in the kitchen - is it real? Indoor bees can’t be for real. I worked for a baker and became friends with her. I moved here I made some good friends while dating that dude. I first started hanging around up here dating someone 10 years ago. I used to go to Leeds all the time but that’s ruined because all the weekenders go there. I spend a lot of time at home, but I love driving around. I also lived for a while in Cape Cod, Mass. I have always been drawn to these kinds of towns. I am really into the small-town vibe, though it has changed a lot lately. I was really creeped out by them they roost on the houses. I live in a part of Greenport where those vultures are - about 40 or 50 of them.

I tell them toward the end or maybe the middle - I can’t remember the page. To get people around here to read “Big Swiss,” I tell them they’re in it. But random people in town, they don’t necessarily know. It has been strange I have two other books that nobody read (“Pretend I’m Dead” and “Vacuum in the Dark”). I gave a reading at Spotty Dog Books & Ale and it was well attended. I think a lot of people I know weren’t really aware or familiar with my work, so this is a new thing. I go to bars, I’m just not one to talk about things I am writing to anybody. I haven’t been out (in town) since the book came out - I went on a tour. This interview has been edited and condensed.ĭo people in Hudson know you’re an author?

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