An Interview with Mercedes

What made you decide to sit down and actually start something? I wrote a novel while in university. It was terrible, though. One idea from that book stuck with me, which was this idea that God couldn’t perform miracles because he was too busy with paper work. I shelved that idea for a long time. Then, about six years ago, I was teaching a philosophy course. I was teaching Nietzsche’sMadmanparable when the line, “God is dead” smacked me. I thought about how it would be amusing if Nietzsche was...