This evening we had the pleasure of welcoming Mona Awad and Christopher Boucher for the launch of their latest titles: Bunny, and Big Giant Floating Head! (I'll have you know: I'd personally recommend both.)

The evening was marked by candid conversation - the best kind - fueled by audience questions with respect to the writing process, the authors' own relations with their work and characters, and grad school.

"My mother is not dead." -Christopher Boucher, regarding fictional Christopher Boucher's mother

"I've always had trouble with structure…With every book, I need to go back to the building materials and figure out what this is gonna look like. Now I find that delightful - but that was definitely a weakness."

"I sort of tripped into writing a novel...[in university] I asked myself: can I write the same thing for both of these classes?"

"I needed to grow up a bit - that's part one and I needed to learn how to craft an arc. I needed to exhaust a lot before getting to the end."

"I've a lot of feelings about MFA programs." -Mona Awad, regarding MFA programs

"The voice came naturally on this one. I was actually working on something else at the time - a bunny hopped by - I took it as a sign."

"I must've written so many stories..."
"Where are they?"
"They're terrible."

As much as we'd like to read them, that's totally fair, Mona.