That means that the sort of off kilter look of the cover has worked. As we close let me just ask you about your teaching and about how much time you are writing and about students these days. What's going on at the University of Louisville with writing and what's going on with your personal writing. Well I'm always working on various projects, short ones, long ones. As I did the novel, I stopped and wrote a novella for a magazine, Zoetrope .
Some writers like to stick with just one project.
I'm more comfortable switching back. forth. In terms of teaching I teach a couple courses every semester, usually one writing workshop and one other course, sometimes a lit course, sometimes a composition course. It's a very nice job. I went from teaching six courses a semester to two courses a semester when I came down here which gave me a lot more time to write and spend with my family which is a blessing, a bonus. The students I have been very happy with.