The Purpose of Art: An Interview with Elise Blackwell
by Alan Heathcock
“I’m fatigued by the idea that there is police tape around content”: Elise Blackwell talks with Alan Heathcock about genre, New Orleans, and her new novel, The Lower Quarter.
Alan Heathcock’s Volt was a “Best Book” selection from numerous newspapers and magazines, including GQ, Publishers Weekly, Salon, the Chicago Tribune, and Cleveland Plain Dealer, was named as a New York Times Editors’ Choice, selected as a Barnes and Noble Best Book of the Month, as well as a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize. Heathcock has won a Whiting Award, the GLCA New Writers Award, a National Magazine Award, has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Lannan Foundation, and the Idaho Commission on the Arts. A native of Chicago, he lives and works in Boise, Idaho.
“I’m fatigued by the idea that there is police tape around content”: Elise Blackwell talks with Alan Heathcock about genre, New Orleans, and her new novel, The Lower Quarter.
