Yolanda Kondonassis: I fear we might one day find ourselves looking back on a pocket of time where we can’t identify quite what lasting innovations we brought with us into the future.
Scott Wolven: As you said, it allows the reader to think, But what if this or that had happened? and to imagine the story continuing.
Kondonassis: Everything is a figurative symbol for everything else in my lens.
Wolven: Move me onto the radar. We need someone there, to record it.
Kondonassis: What other thing in this world can we count on to do that consistently?
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Wolven: Just the everyday world as seen through my eyes.
Kondonassis: It allows us to process and reconcile—it’s both a stimulant and a tranquilizer.
Wolven: I was very pleased that it was chosen for the cover.
Kondonassis: When I was in my teens and twenties, I loved speed and fluidity and perhaps placed a priority on those things.
Wolven: Big engine, lots of long speed. Doesn’t care how much fuel it burns.
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Kondonassis: It just seemed like the obvious thing that I would do.
Wolven: Life can be so full of hardship—all anybody has to do is look around a little and it’s more research than any story can handle.
Kondonassis: It’s like you see yourself in a mirror that tells you a lot more than the kind hanging on the wall in your bathroom.
Wolven: In between, we’d have to hit Cochon and Herb Saint and maybe Acme for oysters—don’t get me started.
Kondonassis: I would say it’s an ongoing quest.