Michael Andreasen’s first book,
The Sea Beast Takes a Lover, is one part
Twilight Zone, a hint of
Twin Peaks, with a dash of
Booshian surrealism. Anchoring his short stories is one of my favorite sensibilities in film and literature: the extraordinary in the ordinary, whether that is making the banal fantastic or normalcy perverse. Below, Andreasen, graciously addresses some of the questions I had about
Sea Beast, gearing up for his first book, and his inspiration.
Melinda Lewis: You took a two-year hiatus from writing after completing your MFA. After finding your incentive or motivation, did the stories just flow out of your brain and onto a page or did it take awhile to get back into a rhythm of writing and editing?
Michael Andreasen: It wasn’t as though a floodgate had suddenly opened, but I did have a new motivation for writing,... More...