Marcus McCann braves Open Book Toronto’s Proust Questionnaire

Who are your favourite heroes in fiction?
In the best books, there are no heroes.

What are your favourite names?
Boys: Flounder, Tobasco. Girls: Camanda, Countessa, Cassette. Floundra in a pinch. Unisex: Collander.

What is it you most dislike?
Watching people yell at each other on TV.

What is your motto?
Find the mortal world enough. (It’s Auden)

Read the whole darned thing.

Some thoughts about writers and activism

“I don’t want to talk too much about polyamory, though. It’s not really something I care about. But I like that Marcus McCann cares about it as much as he does. And I like when poets do well in other public forums, ones beyond the sanctity of the country’s various poetry cults. It was exciting to listen to him walk all over the other guy’s weird logic.”

Read Jacob McArthur Mooney’s piece here.