#ThisorThatThursday Author Interview with Albert Waitt

I’d like to welcome Albert Waitt to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!

A few of your favorite things: Ted Williams “The Splendid Splinter” lithograph, Henry Miller Memorial Library watercolor print. (They’re posted on the wall over my writing desk.)

Things you need to throw out: I have t-shirts in my closet from college. I graduated 40 years ago.

Things you need for your writing sessions: Time, I can write under most any condition.

Things that hamper your writing: My day job.

Favorite music or song: The Who, Quadrophenia (album), John Hiatt, Slow Turning (album)

Music that drives you crazy: Anything with a drum machine

The coolest person you’ve ever met: Robert Plant

The celebrity who didn’t look like he/she did in pictures/video: Gwen Stefani (Before No Doubt broke out. People don’t realize how hard life on the road is for bands who haven’t made it yet, which was the subject of my first published story. Months in a van crossing the country is not glamorous.)

Something you wish you could do: Run like I could in my teens and twenties.

Something you wish you’d never learned to do: Lawn maintenance.

Things you’d walk a mile for: I’ve got a good local bar just about one mile away.

Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: Celebrity gossip shows.

Favorite places you’ve been: Villa Jovis, Capri & Casinò di Venezia, Venice

Places you never want to go to again: Orlando, FL

Favorite books (or genre): Tender is the Night, The World According to Garp, Nobody’s Fool

Books you wouldn’t buy: Romance Novels

People you’d like to invite to dinner (living): Pete Townshend, Richard Russo, John Irving, Phil Esposito

People you’d cancel dinner on: Any politician taking money from special interest groups and lobbyists.

Most daring thing you’ve ever done: I plead the 5th.

Something you chickened out from doing: I’ve turned down the opportunity to climb a significant number of ladders.

About Albert:

Albert Waitt is a writer based in Kennebunkport, Maine.  Waitt’s crime novel, The Ruins of Woodman’s Village, was released by Level Best Books in March 2023.  His first novel, Summer to Fall, was published in 2013 by Barrel Fire Press.  His short fiction has appeared in The Literary Review, Third Coast, The Beloit Fiction Journal, Words and Images, Stymie: A journal of sport and literature, and other publications.  Waitt is a graduate of Bates College and the Creative Writing Program at Boston University.  Experiences ranging from slinging drinks, teaching creative writing, playing guitar for the Syphlloids, and frying clams can be found bleeding through his work.

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