Gingernuts interview

The first of two thorough interviews (on food, board games, soundtracks, favorite horror, Robert Louis Stevenson, my parents, teaching writing, education, process, advice) I've done recently has just gone live:

Gingernuts: We’ll start with some of the easy getting to know you questions. What’s your favourite food?

Glen: Don’t I even get a time of day? Nationality? Anything to narrow this down? Proper chocolate cake rates pretty highly. Proper, as in no goop, the right frosting (buttercream yes, whip cream, God no), very little else. Michigan cherries. Fragrant (but not runny) cheese. Tuscan bread soup. Grilled-onion bagels from the Back Door Bakery, which just burned down, but which is coming back. They swear to me they’re coming back.

Gingernuts: German board games? Why German board games? I don’t think I have ever played one?

Glen: They don’t necessarily have to be German, but I think the Germans started it. There has been a little revolution in board games over the past 25 years or so. The most famous examples would probably be things like Settlers of Cataan or Ticket to Ride (which isn’t German). But the field has seen an explosion of real creativity in terms both of subjects for game play and also game mechanics. With the right friends or family and a long evening, these games are the perfect catalysts for the kind of playful, competitive, laughing, cooperative, fully engaged socializing I like best when I like to socialize. Which, I will admit, is only sometimes…
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