Interview Roundup: Hey Ladies

Bookslut gets a two-fer, landing interviews with Poppy Z. Brite and Cintra Wilson. "Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction," Brite reveals. "In other instances, it's food I dreamed up because I would like to eat it." (And as regular readers know, I'm a big fan, along with other readers.)

Wilson, meanwhile, reveals how difficult the transition from non-fiction to fiction can be:

It was really more like unbuckling my narrative screenplay voice, which has always been too wordy and “writerly,” from its structural bondage. You really don’t have any word-style freedom in a screenplay--they’re too time-restrictive; it’s all action, no adjectives. Screenplays did teach me how to keep a story from straying all over the place, though (hence the structural-formula chicken-wire around all the chapters--there for my own good, to prevent the very present risk of needing to herd 216 different tangential plot-cats at the end). But books are long, so you have enough rope to hang yourself with, too

Finally, she doesn't seem to have an actual book out, but you gotta admire former Playgirl editor turned playwright and monologuist Ronnie Koenig anyway, because you can only have trouble deciding whether you'd rather sleep with Alan Alda or Alyssa Milano if you've got a brilliant sensibility to begin with.