While her “co-star” in Vicissitude, Wolram E. There’s a famous saying in Japan, 見ぬが花 ( minu ga hana), which translates literally as “Not seeing is a flower.” Reading between the lines here? Reality cannot compete with the imagination. Yet Kohana remains some kind of personal enigma, a representation of so many concepts, with human dreams, strengths, and failings all the same.
I’ve had other characters that mean a great deal to me, like Floyd from Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat, Mitzi ( Bullet Gal), Jacob/Jack in Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?, and most recently Trista’s role in Black Sails, Disco Inferno – the new book I did with fellow writer Renee Asher Pickup. She’s been hovering (on precarious geta clogs) in the peripheral ever since. I pulled an all-nighter to complete copy-editing, sent the finished thing to my publishers Perfect Edge Books, lay down – and dreamed about the woman. His latest, Black Sails, Disco Inferno, co-authored with Renee Asher Pickup, is out now and he’s here to talk about an old friend who makes an appearance in it.Įver had a character you’ve channeled that it hurt to let go? Once I finished writing One Hundred Years of Vicissitude in 2012, that was how I felt about Kohana, one half of identical twin geisha born on the first day of the Great Depression in 1929. He’s also a machine when it comes to producing said fiction, so much so it’s hard to keep up with the guy. Andrez is one of my all-time favorite authors, and someone who I believe consistently produces some of the most creative, complex, and challenging fiction around. It’s always a pleasure to welcome Andrez Bergen back to the blog.
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