Ask the Author: Jere Krakoff
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Jere Krakoff
The Old Woman and Old Man in Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs. Their dialogue is at once hilarious and sad.
Jere Krakoff
Sally, the correct (and only acceptable answer) to my question is that the name of Leopold Plotkin's chicken plucker is Primo Astigmatopolous (who, in addition to plucking chickens, was an aspiring trilogy writer).
With respect to your questionI think that your Brooklyn grandfather's first grade teacher shouldn't have tampered with his name. Plotkin was a perfectly acceptable name, well-suited to one whose lineage included a possible kosher delicatessen merchant.
Finally, I also think that it defies statistical probability that I have become virtual friends with a person who was related to a Plotkin/Platkin and, even less likely, was raised in North Dakota, a state where relatively few people have been raised.
With respect to your questionI think that your Brooklyn grandfather's first grade teacher shouldn't have tampered with his name. Plotkin was a perfectly acceptable name, well-suited to one whose lineage included a possible kosher delicatessen merchant.
Finally, I also think that it defies statistical probability that I have become virtual friends with a person who was related to a Plotkin/Platkin and, even less likely, was raised in North Dakota, a state where relatively few people have been raised.
Jere Krakoff
Something Is Rotten in Fettig, is a satire about the criminal justice system of an unnamed republic that (like ours) is sometimes unjust. The inspiration for it was rooted in my work as a civil rights attorney, where I litigated class action lawsuits that challenged anemic public defender programs and conditions/practices in jails and prisons.
Jere Krakoff
Reading excerpts from Joseph Heller, Gunter Gras and others of their brilliant ilk before sitting down to write.
Jere Krakoff
A satirical novel about a crisis in a fictitious republic's High Court of Final Supplications (i.e. supreme court) and how it's resolved.
Jere Krakoff
Edit and re-edit and re-re-edit.
Jere Krakoff
The joy of creating an interesting sentence, or paragraph, or chapter, or string of chapters, and ultimately an entire novel.
Jere Krakoff
Fortunately, I haven't yet experienced a bout of writer's block. So I haven't had to deal with the phenomenon . Perhaps it will come as I work on my next novel. If it does, I will amend this answer to describe how I dealt with it.
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