I'll tell you all my secrets, but I lie about my past

[sovay]

And occasionally I just answer the questions. An interview Geoffrey Goodwin most generously did with me last month is now online at Bookslut: read and find out what I think of the New Weird, traditional narrative, the sea, and why on earth I wrote "When You Came to Troy" in the first place. I may even be reasonably coherent this time around.

Off to the library, to read about Gilgameš in his capacity as judge of the underworld . . .

Comments

[sovay]

Sometimes the latter become the former, but not usually.

Which labels have made that jump? None came to mind immediately, but perhaps that's because I now think of them as descriptive rather than programmatic.

[pnh.livejournal.com]

I was thinking "New Wave" -- the SF movement, not the music. Originally applied to a small group of mostly British writers, it got retooled by readers to describe the broad front of experimentalism that flourished in the genre in the 1960s.