Q: What is Man of Letters?
A: I wrote letters to people. I heard back.
Sometimes they visited me. Sometimes I went to see them.
Later, I posted my books online, and strangers could communicate with me. And I with them. In the books.
The books are like a long letter from a friend, or to a friend.
Q: Charles McGrath called a book Letter to an Imaginary Friend.
A: Yes.
I wrote Copper Canyon Press about what turned out to be NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND.
They declined to look at it.
Q: Why?
A: They only publish a few titles a year.
Q: You write a lot of books in a year.
A: Yes.
Q: Too many for a small press.
A: I’m a small press.
I keep up.
Q: Keep it in the family. Stick with your friends.
A: That’s good advice. Thank you.