Michael talks with Keely Shinners about Cape Town, writing about the arts, their path to becoming a novelist, How to Build a Home for the End of the World (Perennial Press), world building, autobiography in the first novel, a question as a through line, theme as guide for structure, and more.
Keely Shinners is the editor of ArtThrob and the author of How to Build a Home for the End of the World. Their essays have appeared in Electric Literature, Flypaper Lit, Mail & Guardian, Mask Magazine & Full Stop, their fiction has been featured in The Sun and Peach Magazine, and they live and work in Cape Town.
Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet’s “Special Sause” used with permission from Bertholet.