Written Interview with Romanian Exile and Poet Andrei Codrescu
Please enjoy this written interview with Andrei Codrescu. Andrei Codrescu is a Romanian-American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and commentator for National Public Radio. He was the Mac Curdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University from 1984 until his retirement in 2009 . https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Codrescu https://youtu.be/SDwijSla1FI Enjoy... 1) How would you describe yourself to someone who may not be familiar with you? Terrifying. Someone in the Witness Protection Program. Types through sunglasses. 2) How would you describe your writing style? Lyric pampleteering authored by dead exiles who use me as a medium. 3) When I am writing, I tend to have the prose stylings of George Orwell and Christopher Hitchens at the forefront of my mind. Are there any authors that you look up to for inspiration? Yes, but it's their call -- if they need me to type, they channel. I hear them. I just typed a paragraph from Goethe...
