Summary: Hear prize-winning author Sean Murphy on his absurdist novel that recalls 1984, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams. Sean's hilarious story features a corporate takeover of the United States, human-caused destabilization of time and gravity, a boy who can perform tiny miracles, and a charismatic political activist heroine descended from Thomas Jefferson. In this illuminating conversation, Sean reveals: * Why smell, sight, touch, taste, and sound are so important in his writing * How he uses the element of surprise to make people laugh * Why he loves to write about the absurd * How he adds depth to comic fiction * How ideas from Franz Kafka and Gabriel Garcia Marquez have influenced him and his work * How fiction became fact as he was writing his novel.
