In the Book Pages, we talk to the ‘Kick the Latch’ author and ‘Terminal Island’ co-authors Geraldine Knatz and Naomi Hirahara.
Kathryn Scanlan’s slim novel “Kick the Latch” didn’t arrive with a massive media push when it was published in 2022, but both book and author continue to defy expectations.
At an event celebrating the publication of Rita Bullwinkel’s “Headshot,” author Kathryn Scanlan reads at Skylight Books along with authors Amina Cain, Rachel Khong and musician Kelsey Shell on March 28, 2024. “If I’m describing the book, I just try to keep it simple and say that it’s a novel that I wrote based on interviews I did with a former racehorse trainer from Iowa,” says Scanlan, who is also the author of the book “Aug 9 Fog” and a collection of stories, “The Dominant Animal.
“A lot of it was a question of editing, of trying to bring out what I thought was really interesting about a particular anecdote or scene or vignette or story,” she says. “It was a process of starting with the original raw material and then over years just working it into this short form. “When she told me that story, I just loved it so much,” says Scanlan. “I sort of sat up a little bit and was like, ‘Oh, yeah, this is a book.”
In an image from “Terminal Island: Lost Communities on America’s Edge, Orie Mio, second from left, stands in front of the first Mio Café, located at 777 Tuna Street circa 1928.
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