Morgan Talty

Q: How did you arrive at a structure of interwoven short stories?

A: By pure accident, and maybe intuition, and I think respect for the idea of story. If there were no human beings on this planet, story would still exist, there would still be the ability for stories to be told and seen and witnessed, but by whom is the question – the animals and the earth. I don’t think story is something that human beings invented; it was there, and we found it. At a certain point when I’m drafting something – this sounds New Age-y or whatnot – I really feel like I’m communicating with this other thing. I don’t like to plot or plan anything because I feel like I need to figure out what the story wants. It’s sort of like this collaboration. I’m collaborating with art, in a sense.