People, the smoke is rising. All around the great Statesboro area, citizens opened their doors to a distinct and beautiful fragrence, perfuming and heating the air: it was the scent of the swamp, preparing itself to burn. And burn it will, with the fire of beautiful writing, on Thursday at 7:00 at Southern Boy’s BBQ. Here’s a preview of the fourth reader, ready to set the stage aflame.
Introducing … Benjamin Drevlow
Benjamin Drevlow was the winner of the 2006 Many Voices Project and the author of a collection of short stories, Bend With the Knees and Other Love Advice From My Father (New Rivers Press, 2008). His fiction has also appeared in the Split Lip, Profane, Passages North, and Rock Bottom Journal among other journals. He is a fiction reader at BULL: Men’s Fiction, teaches writing here at Georgia Southern University, and lives in Statesboro, Georgia with his wife Christina Olson and their old cranky dog Princess Truman.
Do you believe in Swamp Primates?
If I didn’t, I wouldn’t be doing my job as a teacher.
Do you support the recent proposed plan to domesticate swamp primates?
Just like I tell my wife every time she brings home another plant: some things are just meant to be free (see all incarnations of the Planet of Apes).
Godzilla versus Bigfoot?
Godzilla may be bigger, stronger, uglier, and more marketable in Hollywood, but Bigfoot is still hairier and where there’s too much sweaty unkempt hair, I say, there’s a way.