Who I Am Is Everyone: The Millions Interviews John Haskell

fiction is like little else. Or is it non-fiction? Or is it just magic and not something to be too greatly dissected? In one collection and three novels, he explores the mind’s torsions in an uncommon, questioning manner within a first-person sense of orality, like being around a campfire with and . At times, the wending way of Haskell’s narratorswho include a impersonator, a ghost, and those disembodied voices who talk about films and artists in are incredible chess-like gambits and logic-chopping suppositions both pre- and post- to frustrate (in a good way), embolden, and prod the reader. In his new book, , Haskell again presents a first-person speaker who is trapped by a real-life threat, based on a film, but muses on the great figures of ballet in an effort to right his present trouble and past grief. We talked about the book, his process, and the Internet, through the Internet, this summer.