The Questionnaire: Renate Stendhal  The Questionnaire interviews
Renate Stendhal  The Questionnaire: Renate Stendhal  March 30th,
2012 reset - +  How do you get up in the morning?  Can't wait.
Do you succumb to nostalgia?   Every cup of coffee is Paris.  Do
you write long and cut, or short and backfill?  Long cut cut,
short and also.  How do you feel about your Wikipedia entry?  I
wrote it.  Lunch with any three people who ever lived; who do
you invite?  Gertrude Stein, Nathalie Barnie, Liane de Pougy.
Best piece of advice you ever received?  "If not why not."
Disciplined or hot dog?   Have you ever been defeated by a
genre?  Every genre Stein took on (that's all of them) defeated
me. For a while.  Which classic author would you like to see
kicked out of the pantheon?  A case of repressed memory? They've
already been erased.  Are you okay with blood?  "Blood on the
Dining-Room Floor."  Who is your imagined audience? Does it at
all coincide with the real one?  Virginia Woolf said, "Women
alone stir my imagi