1. People want to know what your book is about before they read it. You’ve hinted it at and we’ve gotten a "clearer" understanding of it from a couple of reviews that have been circulated on the web but we’re still not sure what it is about. Could you enlighten us?
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2. If it’s not about anything, why should I read it?
3. But couldn't any book be described as comprising a small part of the infinite? Doesn't Borges' book of sand represent everything that has ever been written or will be written? Every possible combination of words in every language?
4. Well, mathematically or theoretically speaking doesn’t every possible combination already exist? Isn’t it just a matter of finding it? What we currently don't know about physics or the nature of the universe still exists whether we have discovered it or not.
5. So let us assume then that if this is a book that some other thus far unwritten book is about then we surely have to infer this book’s existence from something that doesn’t exist. Usually that process is reversed. In astronomy, for example, bodies that can’t be seen to exist are inferred from other bodies that can be seen to exist. In this case what can be seen to exist must be inferred from what can’t be seen to exist. Or am I wrong?
7. You’ve written three other books: One Note Symphonies, Still Life in Motion, and The Unknowed Things. Do you, looking back on it now, see any evidence of some kind of evolution in your work? Some kind of maturity in your writing from one book to the next?
8. How did you come up with the idea for the book?
9. Without giving anything away…at the end of the book there is a section that appears to be the start of another book. Or at least I hope so. It’s very interesting. Is there another book in the works?
10. What have you done to all the names in the book? What is the reason for that?
12. Critics of your work say that you’re not topical. I being one of them. There’s a disengagement from the present. They say that your work lacks any social, political, or philosophical insight that might be of interest to a reader. There's no context. How do you respond?
16. Do you consider yourself a good writer?
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