An Interview With Jim Knipfel, Author of These Children Who Come at You with Knives, and Other Fairy Tales: Stories - Page 6

Part of: Scott Butki's Book Time: Interviews with Authors

 

What question do you wish you would get asked in interviews but you don't? Here's your chance to ask and answer it, my interview version of a freebie.

That’s an easy one. The one question I’ve always prayed an interviewer would ask some day goes like this:
 
"Hey, Jim — howzabout I leave the tape recorder in my bag, the notebook closed, I don’t ask any questions at all, and just buy you a couple beers instead?"
 
To which my response would be something along the lines of, “Why, I think that would be just ducky!’ (though I may not use those exact words.)
 

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Scott Butki was a newspaper reporter for more than 10 years before making a career change into education... then into special education.

He reads at least 50 books a year and has about the same number of author interviews each year and, …

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  • 1 - Scott Butki

    May 31, 2010 at 8:38 pm

    I've asked that freebie question to at least 20 people and that's my favorite answer yet.

  • 2 - Scott Butki

    Jun 14, 2010 at 1:40 pm

    Not one but two positive mentions of this book (the short story collection) in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly.

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