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Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Brad Fox.

Brad is a novelist, journalist, translator, and former relief worker currently quarantined in rural Peru. His novel To Remain Nameless was a Paris Review staff pick, an SPD recommended new fiction title, has been a small press bestseller since its release. It was named by Dennis Cooper as a Best Book of 2020.

Brad\\u2019s stories, essays, and articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, and the Whitney Biennial and some of his upcoming work will be featured in \\u201cFrom the Deep,\\u201d a major exhibition at the Smithsonian Museum of African Art in 2021.

Brad left the US in the late 1990s and began working as a feature writer and television producer in the former Yugoslavia. Since that time, he has worked in various countries around the globe, doing different forms of humanitarian and arts-related work.

In March earlier this year, he left New York for what was meant to be a twelve-day trip to northeastern Peru, with the goal of studying with a traditional medicine practitioner and completing a book on the bathysphere dives \\u2014 the first eyewitness account of the deep ocean. That twelve-day trip has extended much longer than those original twelve days, and he\\u2019s been doing virtual book launch events from a little table on the edge of the jungle, surrounded by monkeys, hummingbirds and poisonous ants.

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In this episode Brad and I discuss:

• How his partner\\u2019s experiences as a doula inspired many of the characters and the structure of his book To Remain Nameless.
• What voice and POV techniques Brad used to transition between past and present to give his language \\u201cenergy\\u201d.
• Why \\u201cwriting for no reason\\u201d and experimenting in the moment is a large part of Brad\\u2019s writing process.

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Plus, their #1 tip for writers.

For more info and show notes: diymfa.com/337