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Mike Hilbig graduated in 2017 from Sam Houston State University with an MFA in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing. He teaches English at the University of Houston-Downtown and at Lone Star College. His first short fiction collection, Judgment Day & Other White Lies, debuts from Madville publshing in Feb. of '22. ...more

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I liked a lot of the characters you created in “Judgement day and other white lies”. Do you think any of them are ripe for spin-off novels?

Mike Hilbig I feel like I am mostly done with this collection. Ha. I spent a ton of time editing and revising it. I suppose if I had to pick one character that wo…moreI feel like I am mostly done with this collection. Ha. I spent a ton of time editing and revising it. I suppose if I had to pick one character that would be a fun spinoff, it might be the Professor Threat character, who teaches a class on the politics of pimping at Rice University. But, I'm not sure that I would ever actually do that. Ha. I will say, there is an experimental play called "All the World's Mike Hilbig" that made it into the original draft of the collection but did not make the final cut. The ending just wasn't all the way there and the pacing was a bit off in places, but the good sections of it are some of the best writing I've ever done, and each scene offers clues to what is both fictional and non-fictional in the rest of the collection, especially in the areas of the book where I critique myself as the white writer of the book. It also deals in some pretty personal themes and reveals the collection as not just a question about society in general, but a personal question about how whiteness has meant tragedy in mine and several of my friends' lives because of how we attempted to reject our privilege in ways that were taught to us but were not ultimately all that beneficial to the groups most oppressed by white people. My theory is that if we had been taught more effective political and social ideas as young adults that we would have rebelled in more useful ways than self-harming behaviors. But yes, trying to figure out why two of my best friends died of drug overdoses only months apart in my twenties, and why I survived that lifestyle, and how it felt weird how miserable we were being in the white middle class in America, which is supposed to be your ticket to success in this world, was the main thrust of the initial development of the collection.(less)

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Mike Hilbig I am still working on booking readings for the release, but expect to see me in several local locations from mid-february to late april.

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“When it really boils down to it, evolution is just a spore creating the fungus of progress, feeding itself on a steaming pile of excess, ever-becoming history's paradoxically both finished and unfinished product.”
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“One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles. It was an important night in my life, because I had to make a decision about the hotel. Either I paid up or I got out: that was what the note said, the note the landlady had put under my door. A great problem, deserving acute attention. I solved it by turning out the lights and going to bed.”
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