The Questionnaire: Joshua Clover

By The QuestionnaireMarch 26, 2012

Lunch with any three people who ever lived; who do you invite?


Louis Antoine Saint-Just, Dido (of Carthage), Karl Marx.


 


Best piece of advice you ever received?


"When you are older you will appreciate pitcher's duels more than slugfests."


 


Have you ever been defeated by a genre?


I am perpetually defeated by genre itself. 


 


Which classic author would you like to see kicked out of the pantheon?


Is it too early to say David Foster Wallace?


 


Are you okay with blood?


I am in fact strongly in favor.


 


What's your favorite negative emotion?


Love.


 


What's your problem?


The value form.


 


Title of the book you're probably never going to write, but would kind of like to get around to?


Chez Guevara.


 


Who reads you first?  


Whoever first sees it in print. 


 


Sexy and dangerous, or brilliant and kind?


One for four!


 


Is there a literary community?


Alas!


 

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The Questionnaire is, as her name suggests, a multifarious and mysterious interlocutor. Chameleon-like, her questions change their color as they approach each new interviewee.

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