It's a New York Press Reunion

Jonathan Ames chats with George Tabb about the latter's memoir, in which the classic father-son relationship comes up for much discussion...

I started writing stories about him while he was still alive. Just to get it out of my head and on paper. Truthfully, as mean as this sounds, I wish he was still alive to read this book. To face himself in my mirror, and see what I saw. I still dream about wanting to kill him. In fact, the cover illustration for the book is a reproduction of a drawing I did for the school shrink in second grade. After coming to school with black eyes and stuff, they asked me to draw a picture of "Mommy, Daddy and Me." That's what I gave them. They called my father into the school, where he told me that if I ever drew something like that again, he wouldn't just chop me up, he'd use a chainsaw to make it hurt more.

Click on the cover to buy this Soft Skull release (hi, Richard!) from Booksense. And check out this interview Sarah Stodola did with Ames for Me Three; it's been noted on the bookblogs before, but it's worth your attention.