Steve asked R.O. Kwon:

Hi, We read "The Incendiaries" and really enjoyed it and look forward to your future work! When you have a piece of fiction published, such as your novel or your other short pieces, do you go back and read them? I could understand if you don't, given the amount of hard work required to publish something or could it be a case of "these characters have said all they want to say to me" (if that makes sense)?

R.O. Kwon I love this question—and thank you for the kind words! It varies, to be honest. I've reread some short pieces, but I haven't reread my novel in full since I last edited it. I think often of what the artist Louise Bourgeois said when someone asked how she knew a sculpture was finished: she said it was when the questions stopped. That was, in part, how I knew I'd finished this novel.

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