The opening exchanges of the Q & A:
Taras: Was a “carnival city” necessary in order for you to narrate the stories you did in this novel? How indispensable is this location for the events you describe to take place?Read the complete interview.
Hage: Places are very conflicting to me, and my narrators often clash with the places they inhabit. I have an antagonistic relationship with cities. I maneuver better in cities and have always lived in them. And my characters are shaped by cities. Nature is not only foreign to them but even menacing. I criticize cities but I can’t get away from them.
Taras: One early review of Carnival speculates that the city described is New Orleans. Is that the case or is it somewhere else?
Hage: It is somewhere...[read on]
Read more about Carnival at the W.W. Norton website.
--Marshal Zeringue
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