For the third installment of BOOKGASM’s “WTF Q&A,” in which we hurl at an author random questions having nothing to do with his/her book, we put Lou Berney in our sights. He’s just made his full-length debut with GUTSHOT STRAIGHT, a crime novel cut from the cloth of Elmore Leonard. Er, if Leonard made cloth …
BOOKGASM: Ratio time! Radio Shack : banana = Lou Berney : ______.
BERNEY: Radio Shack.
BOOKGASM: If I had 10 apples and I gave you four apples, what good could possibly come of that?
BERNEY: A Democratic socialist welfare state where doctors are required to pull the plug on Grandma.
BOOKGASM: Write the punchline to this joke I just totally made up: A priest, a rabbi and a man in a bunny suit walk into a bar. The bartender looks at the man in a bunny suit and says, “Sorry, we don’t serve your kind here,” so the man in a bunny suit removes the head from his costume and says, “Look here, you, I’m not really a rabbit. Now will you serve me?” The bartender says, “Oh, my, what a visual trick you have pulled. Why, yes, I certainly will serve you. What’ll you have?” The man in the bunny suit says, “I’ll have what he’s having,” motioning to the priest. The bartender says, “Okay, Father, what are you having” and the priest replies …
BERNEY: “Do you have Sierra Nevada on tap?”
BOOKGASM: Who let the dogs out? (And how the hell do you know?)
BERNEY: The dogs aren’t out. We’re all just in.
BOOKGASM: Do you think Carlisle did the right thing changing Edward into a vampire, or was it selfish? Does Edward show any signs of resentment toward Carlisle for what he did? Explain.
BERNEY: Wait, I thought Dumbledore was gay. —Rod Lott
Rather read a more conventional interview with Berney? Okay, fine.
OTHER RECENT INSTALLMENTS OF THE WTF Q&A:
• WTF Q&A with MARVELLOUS HAIRY’s Mark Rayner
• WTF Q&A with SORROW’s John Lawson
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