The Questionnaire: Aimee Bender

By The QuestionnaireMarch 26, 2012

 


Do you succumb to nostalgia?  


Far too easily.


Do you write long and cut, or short and backfill?  


Somehow both?


Best piece of advice you ever received?  


Trust the process.


Are you okay with blood?  


I am okay with it.


Title of the book you're probably never going to write, but would kind of like to get around to?


 Murder School.


Does plot matter?  


It does!  But it is also so much more interesting and roundabout and JD Salinger Nine Stories-esque than your usual beg-middle-end/conflict/resolution/Syd Fieldinesses.


Does age matter?  


With cheese and buildings


Is there a literary community?  


Isn't this trying to do exactly that?  So: yes.

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The Questionnaire is, as her name suggests, a multifarious and mysterious interlocutor. Chameleon-like, her questions change their color as they approach each new interviewee.

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