Flirt: The Interviews

In Flirt, each story takes the form of a bogus interview with a famous person - athletes, musicians, writers. Each is a pastiche of source material that are then women into the book's main conceit: the interviews are conducted by a woman who would much rather tell her own story and can't stop talking about herself.About the AuthorLorna Jackson: Vancouver-raised Lorna Jackson began her working life as a musician and travelled throughout British Columbia for nine years as a bass player and singer. She has published two collections of short stories, Dressing for Hope and Flirt: The Interviews, and a novel, A Game to Play on the Tracks. Cold-Cocked: On Hockey, the first book to explore a woman’s way of watching the game poet Al Purdy called a “combination of ballet and murder,” was published by Biblioasis in 2007. As well, her non-fiction and literary journalism have appeared in Brick, Quill & Quire, The Georgia Straight, and Malahat Review. She teaches writing at the University of Victoria.