Well, one of things we have in common as writers is that we don’t work too much from personal experience. So, I feel like there’s a constant desire for readers to find parallels between one’s life and one’s work. And they do exist but I think in the case of people like us if we wanted that to be the conversation, they would be much more in the foreground.
Turns out that James Hannaham and Jennifer Egan are longtime friends. Over at Electric Literature, the two writers talked to Ryan Britt about how their relationship has influenced and helped each other’s work.