- Shotgun Wedding Vol 2: What do these pretty chapbooks have to do with anything? Keep reading to find out!
At some point, my interview with Christian Teresi, the director of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), turned into a long and angry lecture. Teresi was upset that I was badgering him about why the AWP Bookfair wouldn't be open to the Seattle book-buying public (the next day, AWP would reverse their decision and open the book fair up after all). His tirade about the importance of AWP culminated in an accusation: Teresi practically bellowed across the phone at me, "I question your commitment to books."
He's not the first person to do so. In testy interviews about the poor treatment of librarians, library officials have told me that I don't care about getting books in the hands of people. Publishers who don't pay their authors as promised have told me that I want to destroy books. Authors whose books I have negatively reviewed have told me that I'm doing harm to the very idea of literature...
