On a recent flight, I booted up my laptop as we passed through 10,000 feet to outline these interview questions for Steve Almond. After thirty years of teaching and eleven published books, Almond has lassoed his “struggles as a writer” and his thinking about writing into one knock-out book on craft.
The book cycles through a dizzying array of storylines a police procedural, a deep dive into the American criminal justice system, a primer on forensic science, a parable about race, class and immigration, reviews literature critic Michael Patrick Brady.