“Food for thought” in the West End Word
A couple weeks ago I did an interview with Sara Porter of St. Louis’ ‘West End Word.’ The issue just came out and I have to admit that it’s so well put together that even I couldn’t wait to read what I said!
The lists in the book are arranged in many different categories such as lists with bad spelling, lists that feature prominently healthy or unhealthy foods or lists with doodles on them. Keaggy said the categories were meant to make the reading more fluid and to provide more humor.
“I didn’t want to keep saying over and over ‘that’s a dumb list, that’s a dumb list,’” Keaggy said. “So I put the lists into different piles to see what they had in common. Each chapter goes through 10 or 12 lists and the readers will turn to the next chapter and find another different kind of list. The categories also help the book flow better. On the site, they aren’t arranged in any order so people go on for 10 seconds, look and then leave. But with a book they expect to be fulfilled and to stay until the end.”
