My Interview With Josh Bazell About His New Novel Wild Thing - Page 5

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

The actual quote in the book is "You don't just make doing dangerous shit look fun, you make being informed look fun. Which is another thing that's not true."

Every school of thought teaches that knowledge is power. How much of that is just them trying to juice enrollment numbers remains to be seen.

How do you and Lisa Lutz know each other?
Who’s Lisa Lutz?

Questions for Bazell from Lisa Lutz: Other than Al Roker, who are your literary influences?

It’s pretty much just Al and Lisa Lutz.

When's the last time you took a bubble bath?
If you have to ask, I’m guessing it’s pretty obvious.

What took you so long to write this book?
My wrinkled bubble-bath fingers.

Don't you think the excessive use of Purell weakens immune systems?

I like to think that cracked skin from Purell-related drying probably leads to more infections regardless. Sorry you asked.

Would he mind if I ripped off his guest footnote idea? (Frankly, I'm surprised I didn't think of it myself)

No, I wouldn’t mind, and yes I’m happy to do one for you.

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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.

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  • 1 - BobP

    Mar 10, 2012 at 2:25 pm

    Sorry to say that Mr. Bazell's answers pretty well reflected his distain for his readership: Loved Reaper, blah Thing. Reviews are running about 10 to 1 for Mr. Bazell to go back to writing what he REALLY knows. Please let him know that passing off Internet blogs as fact don't make his books interesting. Sorry. Hope he does better next time.

  • 2 - scott butki

    Mar 10, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    thanks for the feedback, BobP.

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