Carleton U’s Faculty of Arts interviewed me about my book and about Dragnet

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Jeremy Hanson-Finger, a recent graduate of both the English BA and MA programs, has received a book contract from Montreal-based independent press 8th House.  The contract is for his collection of short stories titled Nice People Who Care About Each Other Having a Good Time [Edit: Title is now Eyeless and Gazing —Jeremy, January 2013]

Hanson-Finger’s collection explores the hopeless gap between people’s desire to adhere to an idealistic moral code and the grim compromises that inform our actions.  For example, in the short story “Saintliness,” a boy tells his therapist that his fantasies of rescuing a girl from danger may have been sublimations of his desire to cause her misfortune and pain.  For those David Foster Wallace fans, it should be noted that Hanson-Finger sees his book as a “spiritual cousin” of Wallace’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. (read more)

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