The nice folks at Green Man Review

...have interviewed me about Life, the Universe, and Writing. The answer, of course, is "forty-two."

greenmanreview.com/book/interview_hetley_2004.html

I'm not sure if it is officially there yet, but the link worked for me.

Barnstead sighting

For those who track such _rara avis_, John was alive and well when I dropped him off on the Colby College campus this afternoon. Excellent chat over sandwiches, in which we discovered a geographical congruence at a small lake in Michigan. Also left some books in his custody.

He didn't bring That Cat. Some difficulty with airport security, I believe, a problem with carrying lethal weapons on all four paws.