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Herb Kauderer
The Mahahaa and the Quarreling Lovers, fiction, Issue 52, September 2020.
Herb Kauderer spent twenty years working in factories and driving trucks, and then twenty years as an English Professor at Hilbert College. His publications include 1,800 poems, about twenty books and chapbooks, 200 pieces of non-fiction, more than sixty short stories, the feature Indie film Beyond the Mainstream (2013), and some short dramatic works. He won the Asimov’s Readers Award for best poem in 2017, has been a finalist for the Analog Anlab Readers Award, received honorable mention in the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and been nominated for many other writing accolades. More can be found at WWW.HerbKauderer.com
Get to know Herb...
Birthdate? September 21st
When did you start writing? I began writing for myself at age eight. I began writing sports and politics for the school newspaper when I was twelve.
When and what and where did you first get published? My detective short story "The Grinning Pearls" appeared in a literary magazine named The Albatross in May of 1977. I was seventeen years old.
Why do you write? It gives me pleasure. Some people like having written. I like the actual process of writing. Especially revision.
Why do you write Science Fiction and/or Fantasy? Curiosity. I have all these college degrees, and have studied libraries full of literary fiction, and I find most of it boring and strangely incurious. SF/F explores new territory. Most literary fiction digs the same holes of numbness and disconnection without adding much knowledge of the human condition.
Who is your favorite author? Your favorite story? Author: John D. MacDonald. Story: "Jeffty is Five" by Harlan Ellison. (Another day the story might be different, but not the favorite author. John D. MacDonald is permanent.)
What are you trying to say with your fiction? Society lies.
If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say? A Life Too Full for Words.
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