# Interview With Brian Evenson
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- Author: [[The White Review]]
- Full Title: Interview With Brian Evenson
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- Summary: Brian Evenson is an author known for his unsettling and thought-provoking stories, often inspired by his experiences and the darker aspects of life. His work, including novels like "Last Days" and "The Open Curtain," blends elements of horror and narrative uncertainty, challenging readers to confront a collapsing reality. Evenson's unique approach to fiction is influenced by various genres and writers, allowing him to explore complex ideas within his unsettling narratives.
- URL: https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/interview-with-brian-evenson/
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## Highlights
> Robert Aickman, who referred to his output as ‘strange stories’ and who does things in his fiction that are simply remarkable. For example, there’s a scene in his long story ‘The Stain’ in which a character who has this weird stain on his body goes to a swimming pool with a friend. The friend looks at the stain just as they’re about to swim, and then without any real discussion or commentary they suddenly get dressed to leave instead. We never quite learn what happened. Something about that is amazing and very different from the standard sort of horror. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jteg77yfxy6xe8ndp56ver6p))
> As a writer, I find translating incredibly useful. The act of translation teaches me how to put language together in a way I don’t usually. It’s a very intimate engagement with someone else’s way of constructing language and the most intense way I know of dealing with the deliverance of thought into language effectively. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jtegqh34vpabgcs4sq3c2r3x))
> An unanswerable question. Everybody’s probably on a continuum between those two things, and I don’t know if there’s a comfortable place to be anywhere on it. But where else are you going to be? It’s those unguarded moments where you’re teetering or balancing on the cusp of belief or unbelief and not knowing which way you’re going to fall that are really, for me, the most interesting moments in life. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jtegvxp7mg8ac11vtnm469wc))