Craig Lancaster’s interview with me

“When I heard that Montana author David Allan Cates had a new novel, Ben Armstrong’s Strange Trip Home, coming out and that he’d formed his own publishing company to release it, I knew that I had to talk to him about this. Truth be told, talking to David was long overdue. We share a state, know a lot of the same people, and I’ve been a big admirer of his writing since I read Freeman Walker, his fine 2008 novel from Unbridled Books. That he’d started a literary press (as I did a couple of years ago) and had decided to try self-publishing offered a sense of kinship long before I exchanged email with him. I’m happy to say that the subsequent electronic conversation made his journey all the more fascinating to me.”

Here’s a link to Craig Lancaster’s interview with me

Montana Public Radio The Write Question Interview

The Write Question radio interview, August 16, 2012

“Your brother forgives you,” Ben Armstrong is told by his mother’s ghost, “Don’t waste that,” and so the hero of this novel begins his long journey home. What follows is a wild ride through the subconscious — a night journey toward redemption and grace. This is the second novel in Cates’s acclaimed Homecoming Trilogy, and it’s amusing and hilarious and weird, and (definitely) unlike any homecoming story you’ve ever read before.