When he got home, he emailed me and we clicked again and a year and a half later, we got married-17 years after we met in New York City. I changed his name to “Nate.”īecause when Comeback Season was published in 2008, I was interviewed on WFYI’s Art of the Matter, and Eric Kroczek/”Nate” was living in Indianapolis, driving to the grocery store, and he heard me on Art of the Matter. Eric and I are far right.īecause when I sat down in 1995 to write a story about my Interview experience, I remembered blowing Eric off and put him in the story.

We lived in a Chelsea brownstone and did internships by day and roamed the city by night-and got college credit! It was glorious.īecause one of the other kids in this program was this guy from Wabash College named Eric Kroczek, who I clicked with immediately but pretty much blew off. In 1990, I went to New York with a bunch of other Midwestern college kids.

The story concerns Jenny and Ethan Perdido, characters in The Circus in Winter, but because it’s not set in Lima, Indiana, the editor and I decided it didn’t quite fit into the book manuscript.īecause it’s about my internship at Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine.

It was published in The Gettysburg Review in 1999. Admit it.īecause you’ve probably never read this story. On Thursday, July 19 at 7 PM, I’ll be at the new Indy Reads Books reading a story called “The Girl with Big Hair.” Here’s why you should come.īecause I had some rockin’ hair in 1987.

Indy Writes Books by M. Travis DiNicola