The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction.

But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?

A lot of the creature comforts and the things we take for granted, are not sustainable, especially at current population levels. And so, it's not just simply a matter of changing over to solar. It's a matter of changing our philosophies. Of learning to live, more or less, mid- or post-apocalyptic, whatever apocalyptic means.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.