{"id":654,"date":"2015-06-30T17:17:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T21:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/?p=654"},"modified":"2015-06-30T17:17:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T21:17:44","slug":"mar-asks-katie-booth-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/mar-asks-katie-booth-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"MAR Asks, Katie Booth Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Katie<\/a>
Katie Booth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Katie Booth\u2019s work has appeared in Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, The Fourth River<\/em> and Vela, <\/em>where she also edits the \u201cBookmarked\u201d column.<\/em> She has earned recognition and support for her work from the Edward Albee Foundation, the Blue Mountain Center and the Massachusetts Historical Society. She teaches writing and journalism at the University of Pittsburgh. Her creative nonfiction piece, \u201cStill,\u201d appears in MAR <\/em>35.1.<\/p>\n

Quick! Summarize your piece in 10 words or fewer. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Excavator birds. Burned out house, brink of demolish. Flashback: fire.<\/p>\n

What can you share about this piece prior to its MAR publication?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was one of those pieces that I struggled with for years. I won\u2019t bore you with the details of its many transformations and deletions. I will say that it only really broke into its current shape after I read \u201cStillness\u201d by Charles Baxter, and let the piece unwrap around a single moment.<\/p>\n

What was the best\/worst feedback you received on this piece?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once, after I read it aloud, a friend said, \u201cIt sounded like it was very beautiful, but I couldn\u2019t actually hear you.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you consider your biggest writing-related success? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I recently published a fiction story which was a thinly veiled story about my great-aunt\u2019s experience as a native speaker of American Sign Language in an oralist deaf school in the 1930\u2019s (where Sign was forbidden and punished). She had spent so much time, over years, letting me interview her, answering all these stupid questions I had\u2014both for this story and a larger study of that moment in Deaf culture\u2014but I\u2019d never shared my writing with her. When I found out she had cancer, I was living in China. I couldn\u2019t deliver it myself, but I finished the story and emailed it to my mother, who interpreted it into Sign Language for my aunt. It was published in Indiana Review<\/em> this year, which was wonderful, but I was far happier to know that the story made it to my aunt, in her own language, before she died.<\/p>\n

Do you have another favorite piece of writing in this MAR issue? If so, name it and tell us why.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes! At the risk of sounding like I didn\u2019t read past the first piece, I\u2019ll say that Jennifer K. Sweeny<\/a>\u2019s \u201cParenthetical at 35\u201d is my favorite. She does this wonderful poetry-meets-essay thing that I\u2019ve tried for years to pull off, but never really have\u2014not like she does. The images she creates are so taut and layered; returning to it now, I\u2019m shocked at how short the piece is. There\u2019s such a full world within it, and such a quiet unfolding of the story that holds it together. I love this: \u201cI had wished to live in a country of bad weather and nested inside a winter inside a winter inside a long night.\u201d But for all the slow lingering of Sweeny\u2019s piece, I also love the rushing thoughts of Wendy Cannella<\/a>\u2019s \u201cImmortality,\u201d and Nancy Hewitt\u2019s \u201cMeasured,\u201d both of which move breathlessly forward, ending in such unexpected ways, among the extension of the details we began with, but with expansive breadth.<\/p>\n

Can you show us a photo of you holding your MAR contributor\u2019s copy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Katie<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks for the interview, Katie!
\n<\/em><\/strong>Laura Maylene Walter, Fiction Editor<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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