Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are being tested out.
Frederick BuschOh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.
Frederick BuschI can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.
Frederick BuschWhat I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.
Frederick BuschIn a way, I see my fiction as having moved in that direction - and the characters as dealing simultaneously with their personal history and with the present in which they are trying to make their way. So that the books are simultaneously about public and interior events. And I am having a great time getting confused and crazed writing about them.
Frederick Busch