City of Legends

To Barbara Holmes (Twist):

I am communicating with you the ground rules for the interview you are soon to conduct with me in public, here, so that you and the readers will know exactly what restrictions I have placed on the subject, content and context of our interview and what my expectations are.

I am of a mood to speak.  I have allowed too many things to simmer, to boil, to burn, and consistent with my temperament, I have not spoken openly and plainly of them, out  of a sometimes misguided loyalty to friends and people in general to not strike out unless absolutely necessary, even sometimes allowing slanders to go unchallenged.

Aside from some basic human decency issues of not revealing actual names of certain people in my past due to vow I have made to them or damage it might do to their relationships or careers, or to keep certain key confidences, expressed and unexpressed, out of a general sense of decorum, I will answer openly, directly, even brutally, any question you have the insight, balls and desire to ask.

I encourage my readers to contact you directly, or through here, to suggest questions and contexts.

Better than anyone who has ever interviewed me in the past (I count 6 interviews you have done with me over the past 13 years), you know me, my history and my works, you knew me before there was a Panther, you were my editor for my humour column at AOL’s  legendary Writers Club, we have broken bread together, mourned mutual friends, and had you call me on my BS in interesting times.  I look forward to an interview that leaves me feeling sodomized, purified and with a clear conscience that I have spoken the truth as it is known and has been revealed to me.

Yours,

William F. DeVault