new Interview Up at Blogcritics

...here, for your perusal. It's quite a lengthy and comprehensive one...

Graduation Season

In the wake of the much-disseminated J K Rowling's graduation ceremony speech at Harvard, and remembering the masterpiece that was Kurt Vonnegut's contribution back in 1997, I've been thinking about the whole thing a little bit.

It is unlikely that I would be invited to give the commencement address at the local high school, let alone Harvard or MIT - I haven't, you know, sold ten million books and become a household name - but if I were to address a class of young people about to step into the great unknown...

( ...this is what I would say )