Nancy Mauro is the author of
New World Monkeys. From her interview with Sarah Seltzer for
Publishers Weekly:
You worked in advertising for a while. Were you always interested in writing fiction?
I've worked in advertising for over a decade, but I was always writing. The pleasure of the weekend was a short story. I eventually decided to leave the industry, return to grad school and try creative writing full time. The program I did was a three-year hiatus and a safe place to really kind of sit and write and focus. It was the space I needed to try a longer-format piece.
How did you come up with some of the more out-there ideas—the boar named “Sovereign of the Deep Wood” and Lloyd the town pervert?
I haven't had the experience of befriending a peeping Tom, but...[read on]
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--Marshal Zeringue
