Caroline Leavitt interviews Thaisa Frank, author of Enchantment

Excerpt:The stories in Enchantment are strange, weird, and well, enchanting. Where did they come from?I never know where things in my imagination come from and I can’t really will them to happen. It’s almost as though there’s a pneumatic tube of the imagination and I hang out there when other writers are occupied so I get weird and cryptic assignments: It could be a title, like The Loneliness of the Midwestern Vampire. Or the image of an enchanted man. If I play with the assignment long enough, characters appear and they make the image or title earthbound. My characters have to adhere to the laws of gravity and deal with an ordinary world.To read the full interview, click here: carolineleavittville.blogspot.com

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