On Episode 79 of The Martin Lastrapes Show Podcast Hour, I enjoyed a wonderful conversation with award-winning author Kelly Luce. Kelly received much-deserved praise for her first book Three Scenarios in which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail.
Here are a few of the topics we covered:
- Cognitive Science
- Chappie
- Ph.D students
- Creative writing workshops
- Living in Japan
- Confusing toothpaste for vaginal cream
- Spending a week in jail
Check out this outstanding book trailer for Three Scenarios in which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail, by animator Corrie Francis Parks:
Here's what Amy Gentry of the Chicago Tribune had to say about Three Scenarios in which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail:
"The longing to inhabit the skin of the other, is, of course, a metaphor for the writing of fiction itself, a drag performance in which we step into our characters' dirty clothes and stare at their bedroom ceilings and try to have their thoughts. Luce has created a collection in which the donning of soft skins, naked or furred, is both an act of love and an expression of the unremitting strangeness of the self."