Solarcide interviews me, one of the most interesting interviews yet: The Digital Age of Domestic Grotesque

Nathan Pettigrew, one of the two minds behind the lit site Solarcide, asked me for an interview a few days ago. This guy knows how to ask questions, ones that not only evoke my own passion for the subject matter but also make it easy for me to answer in a way that is hopefully entertaining for readers.

Head over to Solarcide now. Read the interview. Learn of my greatness.

Here’s a taste of Nathan’s humbling intro:

He’s one of literature’s most lethal rising stars and highly prolific with not one, but four new releases in 2011.

His debut novel from earlier this year, Stranger Will (Otherworld Publications), established Caleb J. Ross as a true talent to be reckoned with. His writing can be described as stylistically beautiful while depicting some of the darkest and most disturbing worlds that fiction has to offer.

Picking up on concurrent themes throughout his work pertaining to family, some have begun to refer to his style as Domestic Grotesque—a genre all his own.

Ego stroked at the Cat O’Nine Tails: an interview

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Caleb J Ross Posted in Media | Leave a comment

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When a person takes interest in my work, I squeal. If you heard a hi-pitched shriek last night, I might be to blame.

Craig Wallwork contacted me with a request to ask a few questions about my work and its ethic. Great conversation ensued, supported, I’m certain, not only by Craig’s excellent provocative queries, but by the fictional Cat O’Nine Tails ambiance.

You can learn:

My thoughts on academia and creative writing
The importance of online publishing
TV/VCR Repair
Computer Programming
Bookkeeping
The origin of my The Velvet username, ThirstyGerbil
The best piece of writing advice I’ve ever received
Or you can major in Business Management or Accounting

Stick around after the interview and take in a few pieces of Craig’s writing. You won’t be disappointed. I recommend starting with The Crocodile, if only because any image of a kid pressing his ass against a floor to prevent shitting himself, works.

Click here to read the interview.

those of a life remembered

Posted on March 12, 2007 by Caleb J Ross Posted in Media | Leave a comment

The interview is a rare opportunity to experience the inner workings of a person. Unless that person likes to call himself a writer, then the interview is just old news to those who’ve read his stories. Fiction can be the ultimate autobiography, though a structured and controlled autobiography it is. Fiction is makeup.So what’s a writer to do when he wants to wash away the mascara? He answers some questions in an attempt to categorize his life, similar to the desires of the protagonist in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea:

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered.

And like this protagonist the writer understands that “You might as well try and catch time by the tail.”
Jason Kane and Justin Holt, both writers themselves, were kind enough to pretend I had interesting things to say, to pretend I had a some thoughts worth organizing. I won’t try claim that this interview forced impromptu responses (I had plenty of time to think), but it is a bit further from fiction than I am used to.