“I’m thinking of a new look at logic, deforming laws of nature in the world as we know it. Perhaps speed (fast, slow), gravity, relativity, causality, the alternate…”
“This playlist is for you, whether you’re an emo aficionado or not, to discover that there is a happier side to emo.”
“I edited The Hurricane Book in a basement bedroom while listening to Hiroshi Yoshimura’s ‘Music for Nine Postcards’ and ‘Wet Land’ on repeat. Yohimura’s music, minimalist ambient with textured nature sounds, elevated the arduous, at times tedious, process of excavating memories in my little underground cave.”
“I make a playlist for every book, adding and deleting and rearranging as I draft. It’s a useful way to create atmosphere and build consistent aesthetics, and also to burn twenty minutes when you should be writing.”
“The Goth House Experiment is a collection of short stories that are all connected by a feeling of disconnection. That is, in an increasingly connected world, we all seem to be more isolated and lonelier than ever before.”
“When I was writing Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind I saw it like a film in my mind, and like most films, there was music. And that music informed what I saw.”
“…I love a sweet love song that is simultaneously about outdated technology.”
“As an immigrant who has traveled ten thousand miles, Remy himself is a Starman, someone who has traveled across space and time and occasionally still feels like an alien or a stranger in his new, adopted country.”
“I don’t often listen to music while I write but music informs all the characters and floods through the feeling and mind of the book.”
“My new novel, Underjungle, is a tale of love, loss, family, and war—set entirely underwater. So War and Peace, but three-thousand feet deeper. And considerably shorter.”