Author Interview: James Hetley

James Hetley

Interview byKatharine Eliska Kimbriel

James Hetley is a renaissance man, which is often the case with writers. He’s been an architect specializing in renovation and adaptive reuse of old buildings. Of course, he lives in a magnificent horror of a house from the 1850s, with an electrical system from Edison’s time and a furnace installed when Roosevelt was president.

Teddy Roosevelt.

He offsets all this by living in the present, learning about the past, and hypothesizing about the futu...