Rob Geisen is the author of 10 books of poetry, most recently, The Aftermath, etc. by Get in the car, Helen (monkeypuzzlepress.com).
He hosts a weekly Tuesday night Open Mic at the No-Name Bar (next to Cosmos, on the Hill) in Boulder, CO. He is currently writing in various genres including Lovecraft’s Cthulu Mythos, and is collaborating with filmmaker Jon Olsen on a couple of top secret kickass movie projects. His novel, Godkiller!, is forthcoming.
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Rob Geisen interview, with Meg Tuite
Anything you want to share with our readers about the inspiration for this story?
I started writing about Sarah Palin during the 2008 elections for something called Recipes For The Apocalypse, a free weekly brochure that explored issues like salmonella, the career of Christian Slater and the current state of politics. I’ve been somewhat obsessed with writing about how pissed off I get whenever she says anything ever since. Educational Note: How To Field Dress a Moose could easily be Slaughterhouse Approved. If you follow the steps exactly, you could if you wanted to use them to successfully chop up and field dress a previously living moose. I Googled it. Did a little research. It’s all terrifyingly true!
Do you have a specific writing schedule that you adhere to and/or any tricks that help you, that might useful to our readers?
I write every day. The schedule varies depending on the project. If I’m working on prose I do around 2000 words a day. Poetry I kind of write, whenever. It’s not as scheduled. I write better in bars. In notebooks. In the late afternoons when nobody else is around.
What are you reading at this time?
The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene, Harlan Ellison’s Watching, The Emperor of Gondwanaland and Other Stories by Paul Di Filippo, and Kore of the Incantation by Brooke Elise Axtell.
Name the top two or three most influential writers in your reading life and maybe a note on why.
Richard Brautigan, because he made me fall in love with words. Hunter Thompson, because the world needs him now more than ever. And H.P. Lovecraft, because he’s the only writer that scares the shit out of me.
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