Got Ridiculous...
with Vol. 1 Brooklyn
New interview up at venerable book culture hub Vol. 1 Brooklyn, which must now be going strong on its third (?) decade. I gave it my best over about an hour late one night maybe two weeks ago…
With thanks to them for staying afloat and giving writers a boost, and to Kurt Baumeister for sending over his ridiculous question template.
Maybe ‘ridiculous’ reads as tone-deaf when the handbasket-to-hell is so obviously accelerating out there… I know. I know. I know. Believe me, I know.
But c’mon, let’s never let a sense of the absurd stand in the way of recognizing the lay of the land.
preview:
- “I’m writing this winter at a 200 year-old farmhouse in Vermont, a place to live more frugally while subletting my spot in Brooklyn. It’s been both great and challenging — I’m daily confronted with how addicted I’ve become to the prospect of going out, for book events or just to socialize, which New York City offers in spades. There’s always something if you want there to be something. You can live centrifugally, sort of constantly absenting yourself from yourself because there’s always something else to do to occupy your mind and your voice. Vermont, especially in winter, is much the opposite, and that is a good thing for writing.”
- “This past summer I interviewed the short story author Zach Williams, and after the interview proper, we were talking over a beer about whether there really might be something like low-grade telepathy, or thoughts and feelings that travel like radio signals from mind to mind…”
- “What it gets at, ultimately, I think, is the question of what lasts. What lasts? To whom and by what means are our deepest commitments made? And why and to what end? And may that end just be beauty? And if all of our pain serves our art does that mean it was for the best?”
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/02/03/six-ridiculous-questions-j-t-price/