A lot of the short stories in my new book almost got edited in front of a live audience. But if you perform too much for an audience, after awhile you begin to try and fulfill the audience's expectation and not your own. It's important to write to explore your emotions and your own experiences and not lose sight of that. They're not the kind of emotions you want to air in a bar. It sounds strange because the thrill of Longhi's work is precisely in its lurid, hypersaturated grotesquerie, exactly the kind of stuff that's almost guaranteed to woo a drunken crowd.
Some stories are only a few paragraphs, just a tiny bite of the most hilarious depravity.
Both of them left their wives to be in a homosexual relationship with each other. They moved to San Francisco and have been lovers ever since. Last night me and Len were telling this story to our friend, Maria. I keep looking for these guys everywhere around town. They're gay twin brothers who live together in some rural town in New Hampshire and the two of them carve wooden ducks for a living.