It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.
Scott McClanahanThere's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.
Scott McClanahan[He Stopped Loving Her Today] is all about the experience of being alive and the thought process of consciousness, and then you have these polemical essay-type things going on for a couple decades now. Some of these music books are where you're going to see an anecdote of a person behaving without some kind of commentary.
Scott McClanahanOnly cool people care about the origin stories of why they like something, and I'm not cool.
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