Emily Hunt Kivel Is Doing Things a Little Differently

A couple of years ago I was interviewed by The Creative Independent about my novel Pure Cosmos Club. I said then that it’s important to write a first draft quickly — that working fast gives a book momentum — and that laboring over a manuscript for too long makes the work stale and reeking of effort. Emily Hunt Kivel read the interview and we traded a short exchange. She called the opposite impulse “precious and unnatural, some kind of necromancy.”