"I did a workshop with Jordy Rosenberg maybe five years ago, and he was talking about this idea that a work of fiction can have a thesis statement, just like an essay, but it isnāt necessarily interested in answering that thesis statement. That helped me heaps. I write to try to understand things that confuse me. The form emerges as I try to answer questions. The shape of a book also comes from problem solving and constraint. You make one decision and that cuts off twenty decisions and youāre stuck with two decisions, that kind of thing. And life too. The body that Iām in and the life that Iāve lived lead me to write this particular book in this particular way. Thatās why itās so important to live around the writing. I need to be in political action, I need to be in family action. These things lead to structure. And sometimes it comes really late. With Audition, it was drafts and drafts and drafts."
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Your books are all quite formally experimental. At what point does the shape of piece of work become clear to you?
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