What, Why, How: Will Ludwigsen

What:

I met my gracious blog host Linda at the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine, where I studied “popular fiction.” That was their term for fiction that people don’t feel pressured to read, and usually with spaceships or ghosts or detectives.

I chose popular fiction because I sometimes do use spaceships and ghosts and detectives in my work, though it’s a stretch to call it particularly “popular.” Some literary readers are perplexed by the appearance of the st...