Thom Vernon interviewed by Revue Magazine

Coach House author Thom Vernon recently spoke to Joanna Dykhuis of Revue Magazine about his next project, his family in Arkansas, and his debut novel, The Drifts.

'For me, it was important to show a side of Arkansas that I had experienced versus the caricature that's always given of the south. I've always been very welcomed and embraced there ... My aunt would tell me stories; my grandmother would take me down [to Arkansas] and then I went back as an adult ... my book is not a retelling of those stories, but [it is] inspired by the weirdness of those stories'

Read the whole article here.