Eugene Marten and his new novel Firework are discussed in this interview with the author. It’s hard to say what is more interesting – the content of Marten’s book or the description of his writer’s life.
The latter could be out of a novel itself: his dimly lit Harlem apartment, getting up at 5am to write and the ritual of the coffee maker, writing on the subway on his way to his job as a printer, the eighteen year long struggle to birth his novel, and so on. Which brings us back to Firework itself, which sounds like a damn good read.
