It's like mixing a record. What are you going to foreground, what is going to sit so low in the mix that it acts subliminally? What I'm looking for in writing is language that's concerned with what is inexpressible, which is a language moulded by pressing itself against the ineffable... I have a dream about writing a very quiet novel, one that mixes Blanchot with Marilyn Robinson or something. Maybe that will be my 'domestic' novel. Thomas Kendall interviewed by Chris Kelso.
