Michael talks with Ander Monson about his many literary projects, a love of machines, integrating the web into early books, image/text, his path to nonfiction, the process of writing PREDATOR: A MEMOIR (Graywolf Press), the cultural importance of the movie, implicating himself in his exploration of contemporary masculinity, returning to the things you love at 14, controlled writing that captures spontaneity, and more.
Ander Monson is the author of nine books, including Predator: A Memoir, A Movie, an Obsession, which is out today from Graywolf Press. He is the hand behind many projects in the literary community, including DIAGRAM, New Michigan Press, Essay Daily, and March Xness, and he directs the MFA program at the University of Arizona.
Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.