SS: Your forthcoming book—Wild Life: Collected Works, 2003-2018—will gather over 15 years of stories. Will they be sequenced chronologically? What kind of changes do you see in your writing over that period?



KF: Thanks for asking about it, Sierra! The stories are not in chronological order. They are sequenced more or less thematically and in three separate sections of the book. And although they're gathered from 15 years of writing I was pretty selective. It's still a very slim volume!

I would say that my writing has gotten subjectively better over the years, but that there are still some early stories that I feel really proud of. And those are the ones that made the cut and are included in the collection. I don't think I have the objectivity to really look at my writing as a whole and say how it's changed.



2.

SS: What would your reality TV show be called?


KF: My reality TV show would be called "Master Procrastinators," and it would just be live cams of people with bad teeth and unopened mail, watching "Hoarders" in their pajamas.



2½.    

SS: Why do you worry so much about...?


KF: The state of the world?

It's useless, I know. It doesn't accomplish anything. Still I find myself awake at 3 a.m. quaking in fear for the future of humanity. Bad things have always happened. Worse things, even. But there are kind, tender-hearted people everywhere. And dogs and babies and sandwiches and beer and books. So, really. Not so bad.


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