There is more Tanzer Tuesdays at the We Are Vespertine, and yes we are a day late as we were last week, well, and the one before last, but we are no less geeked, and quite appreciative, and today we are interview. Big thanks Vespertine. And drinks, many, on us, when next you're here, July, yes? Yes.
What can we look forward to next from Ben Tanzer?
We are very focused right now at TBWCYL, Inc. headquarters on expanding the various lines of our growing lifestyle brand, so there is a denim collection in the works; condoms, and sponges, do people still use those, the latter, not the former; and now that Liz Taylor has passed, may she rest in peace, perfume for sure. I’m always prepping for the X Games, you know, just in case. And in the literary universe, I have a humor collection called This America Life coming out this summer from Achilles Chapbook Press which gathers pieces of mine that have been published over the last several years and then sometime soon thereafter I have novella titled My Father’s House coming out from Main Street Rag which is intended to be both an extended riff on losing a parent and an homage to The Basketball Diaries. I’m also working on a science fiction joint, and we’ll see how that turns out.
"Bottom line: I don’t think I will ever read anything that captures the mind of the late-thirties American male the way this book did, this delicate tightrope of fearing what the future holds and hoping that the best days aren’t already gone. Tanzer weaves this all together in a very non-heavy-handed kind of way, disguised in the bullshit conversations you have with friends, the train of thought when temptation lurks, and the ticking time-bomb that is childbirth. We all have to grow up sometime, and whether it’s Tanzer simply recalling his experiences or something wholly conjured—I’m not sure I care. It works. I feel a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit more prepared for the future…whatever it may hold for me."
There is more Tanzer Tuesdays at the We Are Vespertine, and yes we are a day late as we were last week, well, and the one before last, but we are no less geeked, and quite appreciative, and today we are interview. Big thanks Vespertine. And drinks, many, on us, when next you're here, July, yes? Yes.
