As Told To

Lookie what I found in my inbox!

Veronique du Turenne was down Mexico way recently for the Guadalajara International Book Fair, where she snapped this significant shot of a massive electronic wall celebrating L.A. authors.

This year’s “Guest of Honor” was Los Angeles–the first time a city (as opposed to a country) has received that distinction.

I didn’t recognize the quotation at first. The sentiment, yes, the image, yes, but not the words.

Some Googling revealed that it came from an LAist interview I did when The Interloper came out.

Here’s the thing about interviews. Most of the ones I’ve done have been via e-mail, which means that I have control over my own responses, i.e., I can’t really misquote myself. This particular interview, though, was done old-school style, as a conversation over fish tacos, with a tape recorder on the table. Which means that Callie Miller had to take our wandering, digressive, spontaneous chat and make it look like a series of Qs and As.

I don’t know how much tweaking went on to render my everyday speech (rambling, stumbling, surfy) into the written word, but I suspect it wasn’t easy.

For the record, I was happy with the result.

Maybe the author wall should have said:
ANTOINE WILSON*
*as told to Callie Miller

See more of Veronique’s Guadalajara photos on her photostream.