Gino had recently moved into a new house and kept repainting the kitchen, three or four times in the first month. I was at a party, talking to two of my writer friends, Joseph Schwartzburt and Gino Orlandi. Please forgive the haphazardness of that literary analysis.Īs for this story specifically, I know exactly where I got the idea. seem to deal with the absurdities of the everyday. Maybe the difference is that I’m more existentially absurd where Cheever, Carver, et al. In general, I think I write against the midcentury-realist vein, even though I often tackle the same subjects. Zach Powers: Someone else mentioned that Cheever story to me, but I have to admit I’ve never read it. There was such an emotionally honest and recognizable domestic story beneath the weirdness. Erin McReynolds: Something about this scenario-an unhappy father painting himself into isolation from the rest of his family-while recalling absurdist Italo Calvino, reminds us a little, too, of Carver’s abandoned husband putting all his possessions on the lawn or Cheever’s discarded suburban man swimming across town via his neighbors’ pools.
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