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EYE SPY LA'S MARK SHARE TALKS WITH AUTHOR CLANCY MARTIN ABOUT "BAD SEX" AND DIFFICULT WOMEN
Clancy Martin, will be at Book Soup on Friday, January 15, 2016 (7pm) to read from his new book Bad Sex in conversation with the writer Mark Sarvas (@marksarvas). He spoke recently with www.EyeSpyLA's Mark Share (@MarkShareLA) about the novella, truth and lies for lovers, and our increased interest in novels featuring difficult women. Bad Sex, is a dark, and often funny, story told first person by a woman named Brett, an American novelist living in Mexico who can write only when drunk, and who loses almost everything in a downward spiral of drink and adultery.
MS: What chapters do you like to read?
CM: My favorite part to read is right around where Brett and Eduard first meet, and Sadie's there, she's kind of the moral center of the novel, and she's funny. And that particular event actually happened.
MS: The book jacket copy portrays you as a perfectionist, Brett's opposite. It says your personal life is married with three kids in the mid-west; your professional life is teaching college humanities with awards and high productivity. You even studied Buddhism in India. Why would someone like you want to spend hundreds of hours puzzling out the story of an alcoholic depressive like Brett?
CM: Mostly, because I know Brett very well. I am recovering alcoholic myself. I have spent time struggling with all the issues Brett struggles with--adultery, lying, and alcoholism. Hopefully, coming out the other side of those struggles.
The other reason, other than the fact that I have lived what she goes through--it's the same reason I write about suicide and that I'm working on a book about death, I like to talk about things that other people are a little bit afraid to talk about. I think it's healthy for us to talk about those things.
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