Remembering Derek Alger
by Richard Luck
Issue No. 211 ~ December, 2014
To be honest, I don’t remember exactly how I first met Derek.
To be honest, I don’t remember exactly how I first met Derek.
Richard Luck: Did you have a specific reason for writing this book? Victoria Alexander: In the case of Smoking Hopes I was responding to Waiting For Godot. I personally don’t think it would be so bad if we found out that Godot was not coming …
If you’re wondering where the future of modern fiction lies, well, look no further than Generation X ... this is the ruler against which all future novels will be measured.
Winning the Washington Prize for Fiction for your first novel shows incredible talent, of which, admittedly, author Victoria Alexander possesses a lion?s share. She is a seemingly brash and witty woman, not entirely unlike Smoking Hopes? heroine, Charlie Dean, who worked part-time as a stripper …