The Spokesman-Review Talks With Bruce Holbert About His New Novel Whiskey

In his new novel, WHISKEY, acclaimed author Bruce Holbert has crafted another masterpiece which Publisher’s Weekly called “a violent, gruesome, and beautiful tale that, despite its despondency, is perversely winning.”Here's an excerpt from his interview with the Spokesman-Review:

Some of the pieces of “Whiskey” date back 20 years, and pretty much all three of his first novels were written simultaneously.“Because I taught school and raised kids and had a wife I liked to spend time with, I wrote a lot on the margins,” [Holbert] said, adding that he would go where the energy led. “If I was frustrated with this book, I would go and work on Hour of Lead, and back and forth.”And while the story is centered on the two brothers, the character who fueled the writing, Holbert said, was their mother, Peg, a woman who is tough, selfish, cruel and not the least bit maternal.“Holy smokes. She took over the book, the torque,” he said. “She uses her sexuality as a club. She doesn’t apologize for anything. And everybody else at one point or another is roadkill. She just runs over them.”

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