Interview With Author Kurt Eidsvig
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am the author of five published books, as of Drowning Girl, my newest. A bio: Kurt Cole Eidsvig is the author of the books The Simple Art of Murder, OxyContin for Breakfast, Art Official, and POP X POETRY. His work in both poetry and art criticism has been featured in regular columns for publications like Big Red & Shiny, ArtsAmerica, SpinRecords, and Examiner.com. Eidsvig taught art and writing at UMASS Boston, the University of Montana, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. His writing has earned recognition like the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Award, the Edmund Freeman Award, and a teaching fellowship from the University of Montana. A visual artist as well as a writer, his work is part of numerous private and commercial collections and has been included in exhibitions in LA, Boston, and Sydney, Australia. More information is available at EidsvigArt.com
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Drowning Girl was inspired by the Roy Lichtenstein painting of the same name. The book becomes the story of the individual dots within the painting.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
For Drowning Girl I used collage material including paid surveys where I had people go to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and attempt to count the number of dots in the painting.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
This book is particularly inspired by Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley, Moby Dick, and a number of Elmore Leonard novels.
What are you working on now?
A magical realism novel and a group of poems.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
www.EidsvigArt.com
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Writing is better than thinking about writing.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The poet Rumi: “I should be suspicious
Of what I want.”
What are you reading now?
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, by Mike Wallace and Edwin G. Burrows
What’s next for you as a writer?
Complete my new novel.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
100 Years of Solitude, Tishomingo Blues, A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings (trans. Coleman Barks), and a good book on “How to Survive On a Desert Island.”
Author Websites and Profiles
Author Interview Series
To discover a new author, check out our Featured Authors page. We have some of the best authors around. They are just waiting for you to discover them. If you enjoyed this writer’s interview feel free to share it using the buttons below. Sharing is caring!
If you are an author and want to be interviewed just fill out out Author Interview page. After submitting we will send it out in our newsletters and social media channels that are filled with readers looking to discover new books to read.
If you are looking for a new book to read check out our Featured Books Page.