Glen Pourciau’s fourth story collection, Under, was published in September by Four Way Books. His stories have been published by AGNI Online, Epoch, New England Review, New World Writing Quarterly, The Paris Review, Post Road, TriQuarterly, and others. He lives in Galveston, Texas.
Eckleburg: What captures your interest most in your work, now, as a reader of your work?
Glen Pourciau: In my opinion, every reader brings at least a slightly different reading to a story. As I read my stories I’m thinking of ways they can be interpreted and the power of readers’ imaginations as they process the text. The reader is a living part of the story.
Eckleburg: What are you working on now?
Glen Pourciau: I’m always working on more stories. They’re getting shorter these days. My mind seems to want to shrink them.
Eckleburg: Who and what are your artistic influences?
Glen Pourciau:
The two writers who have influenced me most are Franz Kafka and Harold Pinter. Pinter gave me a focus on how much could be expressed in just a few words of dialogue. His dialogue still rings in my head. Kafka is the writer who brought me to writing. I feel in my bones the experience of first reading Kafka. Tone, tone, tone in both writers.
