from "Rocking Waffles with Danny Goodman" at Art Faccia

JER:As a writer, what kind of subjects, stories, or even moments intrigue you the most?

DG:Infidelity, in whatever form that comes, fascinates me. Trust is such a delicate item, and I really enjoy exploring characters who struggle with it on both ends, the betrayer and the betrayed. The breakdown of the everyday is most gripping for me. Carver once said, “It’s possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman’s earring—with immense, even startling power.” As subjects go, there’s nothing more interesting to me than the “commonplace,” as Carver puts it. When characters are faced with the deafening reality of waking up, putting one foot in front of the other, and moving forward.

A “Double-Dose of DG” Wednesday

Two fun things I hope you both dig and share. Remember, you rock:

√ My nonfiction essay, “Angles of Response to Your Angles, or Brief Reflections on Tennis, Sharks, and the Loss of David Foster Wallace,” published in the new issue of Specter Literary Magazine

√ Art Faccia editor J.E. Reich asked me some questions, and it was a damn good time: “Rocking Waffles with Danny Goodman,” published in Art Faccia

Rocking Waffles with Danny Goodman: An Interview by Art Faccia's J.E. Reich

J.E. Reich, of the lovely literary journal Art Faccia, was kind enough to interview me regarding my editorial (fwriction : review) and written work. Why, you ask, would someone waste time talking to me? I give you my honest answer: financial incentive. (Kidding. Or, am I? No, I am.)

What, exactly, does it mean to “rock waffles”? If you ask editor and writer Danny Goodman, it is what good fiction should aspire to. According to the submission guidelines for Goodman’s literary brainchild fwriction : review, the fiction he looks to publish should “melt faces and rock waffles”; the phrase, therefore, seems to speak for itself.

But fwriction : review and its sister blog fwriction are not the only Goodman productions that rock waffles; Danny Goodman himself is an enterprise and entity unto himself. He is also a published writer, and is most notable for his “Ben Stories.” Goodman is currently working on a novel about the relationship between the aforementioned Ben and a character named Roddy, who is featured in his complete novella.  

Art Faccia’s J.E. Reich interviewed Goodman. Here is what went down.