Michael Reed
The book, Songs From Richmond Avenue, took shape during a roughly eight-month period while I was drawing unemployment after a publication I worked at went belly up. I looked for work online in the morning and when that got boring, which happened pretty quickly most days, I started writing a couple of short stories based loosely on some funny things I’d witnessed riding metro buses or walking through my neighbourhood.
One morning I stuck a couple of these short stories together and decided to have them come from the voice of a single, first-person narrator. Then I decided to have the narrator go to a bar. From there, I started putting together a vague outline that ended up changing a fair amount as I went forward. Most of the inspiration comes from the amalgamation of a funky bunch of characters from Houston dive bars, using some of their exploits to invent my own stories.
One morning I stuck a couple of these short stories together and decided to have them come from the voice of a single, first-person narrator. Then I decided to have the narrator go to a bar. From there, I started putting together a vague outline that ended up changing a fair amount as I went forward. Most of the inspiration comes from the amalgamation of a funky bunch of characters from Houston dive bars, using some of their exploits to invent my own stories.
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