q
Why is
your site called learyworks?
a I do most of my production work on a computer: writing, scanning, printing and so on. The computer is my factory. The website is the front office that peddles the products that come off the learyworks assembly lines.
q Are the characters in Blood and Peanut Butter based on real people?
a Yes, no, sometimes, not really, I can't remember. This is fiction. Which is why, as readers well understand, characters in books are disposable in ways that neither author nor reader would wished to be disposed of themselves.
q Is Blood and Peanut Butter autobiographical?
a See the answer to the question above. Plus these words from Mario Vargas Llosa: 'All stories are rooted in the lives of those who write them; experience is the source from which fiction flows.'
q Why is the book called Blood and Peanut Butter?
a Blood stands for passion, danger and death. Peanut butter is childhood innocence and the comforts of home. Or something like that. Choosing a good title is difficult. Titles considered and rejected included, Why Are Relationships So Damn Difficult? (too self-help), He Says Big Apple She Says Big Smoke (would the American reading public get it?) and, my favourite, Hello Mr Hockney (I liked the alliteration but readers would get cranky when they discover Mr Hockney's part in the story is miniscule).
q Why are there rarely any people in your photographs?
a I'm an architect. Architects hate putting people in their pictures; it spoils the view.
a I do most of my production work on a computer: writing, scanning, printing and so on. The computer is my factory. The website is the front office that peddles the products that come off the learyworks assembly lines.
q Are the characters in Blood and Peanut Butter based on real people?
a Yes, no, sometimes, not really, I can't remember. This is fiction. Which is why, as readers well understand, characters in books are disposable in ways that neither author nor reader would wished to be disposed of themselves.
q Is Blood and Peanut Butter autobiographical?
a See the answer to the question above. Plus these words from Mario Vargas Llosa: 'All stories are rooted in the lives of those who write them; experience is the source from which fiction flows.'
q Why is the book called Blood and Peanut Butter?
a Blood stands for passion, danger and death. Peanut butter is childhood innocence and the comforts of home. Or something like that. Choosing a good title is difficult. Titles considered and rejected included, Why Are Relationships So Damn Difficult? (too self-help), He Says Big Apple She Says Big Smoke (would the American reading public get it?) and, my favourite, Hello Mr Hockney (I liked the alliteration but readers would get cranky when they discover Mr Hockney's part in the story is miniscule).
q Why are there rarely any people in your photographs?
a I'm an architect. Architects hate putting people in their pictures; it spoils the view.
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New
England 1991
Berlin
2003
