Author and journalist Daniel Alarcón’s latest project is the Spanish language podcast Radio Ambulante, presenting a live episode at Litquake October 9 at the Mission Cultural Center. Here, he responds to the Litquake Interview.
- 1. What is your favorite book?
- 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
- 2. Who is your favorite writer?
- Joseph Roth
- 3. If the answers to 1 & 2 are different, why?
- Consistency is not important.
- 4. How old were you when you were first published?
- 26, I think.
- 5. What writing style do you most abhor?
- Purple.
- 6. What is your favorite word?
- Ampersand. I’ve never used it.
- 7. When and how do you write?
- On a computer, whenever and wherever I can.
- 8. What is your greatest fear when you first turn in a manuscript?
- That it sucks.
- 9. In what era do you wish you’d been born?
- I have no problem with this one.
- 10. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
- “As if in a dream.”
- 11. Which talent would you most like to have?
- The talents a writer doesn’t have are those things that define your style.
- 12. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
- Tossing out a complete draft of a novel and starting over.
- 13. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
- Franz Tunda
- 14. How would you like to die?
- I don’t want to die.
