Description

Due to rights issues, the audio of this interview is not available online. Please contact San Diego State University, Special Collections and Archives if you wish to be granted access to the original audio. Larry McCaffery and Sinda Gregory interview Susan Daitch. Daitch describes what will be her 2001 novel Paper Conspiracies. Daitch then explains how she came to write her first novel, L.C. from its inspiration in art installations by Hans Haacke and Juan Downey. McCaffery and Daitch discuss the narrative structure of Daitch’s novel The Colorist. Daitch explains how her books begin with a situation rather than a character. There is discussion of the current state of graphic novels and how it influenced The Colorist. Daitch ends the interview with a brief history of her personal life. An edited version of this interview appears in Review of Contemporary Fiction. Summer93, Vol. 13 Issue 2, 68-82.