Michael James Rizza on Cartilage and Skin:
I started Cartilage and Skin in 1998. When I went to South Carolina in 2004, I had a complete draft, which was roughly 180 pages longer than the current 324 pages. As I worked on my PhD, I didn’t really think about my book. Sometimes during that period, I would open to random pages and tinker with the language. In 2006, I added a sentence about Horatio Alger; in 2009, I added a sentence about “rhizomatically-inclined sophists.” That was the last sentence I added. In the spring and summer 2010, after I finished my dissertation, I cut out the 180 pages (which, as I mentioned, dealt with his youth) and moved some things around.
Read more at When Falls the Coliseum.
Alex Kudera’s award-winning novel, Fight for Your Long Day (Atticus Books), was drafted in a walk-in closet during a summer in Seoul, South Korea. Auggie’s Revenge (Beating Windward Press) is his second novel. His numerous short stories include “Frade Killed Ellen” (Dutch Kills Press), “Bombing from Above” (Heavy Feather Review), and “A Thanksgiving” (Eclectica Magazine).
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