michael davidson, a magic truffle, lets plain wrap get to know him better. this is the fifty-eighth installment of plain wrap’s interview series in which plain wrap interviews all its facebook friends. thank you, michael davidson.
1. Tell us about yourself?
1. Thank you for asking Plain Wrap. I’m going to try to answer honestly, for the sake of your readers. I’m many elements all wrapped up into one ball that responds to two names, one of them being herocious. Some days I respond more to Michael, others I feel like herocious. Soon I’ll be a magic truffle on the tip of your tongue spiced with strong island rum that will make you squint at your own reflection and notice something new about your skin.
2. Have you read any good books lately?
2. Shit yes. Good books have swallowed up a large fraction of my life. I’m always reading good books, mostly small press affairs, and I often review them. Right now I’m in the middle of FAME & MADNESS IN AMERICA. Before that I read THE HUMAN WAR and PERSON. And before that I read IF I FALTER AT THE GALLOWS and THE SECOND ELIZABETH. All of these books are worth my time and more. I also write and handpress books under Tiny TOE Press, which operates on my kitchen table. Maybe I won’t be a magic truffle on the tip of your tongue. Maybe I’ll be a book in your hand being swallowed by other books.
3. Why did you leave your last job?
3. To avoid driving. Now I walk to work and I’m the happiest man in the world. My legs have muscles that burn when I walk uphill.
4. What have you done to improve your knowledge in the last year?
4. Become small, insignificant, a single note on a piano, an eyelash on an elephant, a leaf floating fifteen stories in the air that makes everyone around think, “Lucky leaf.”
5. Tell us about the most fun you have had in life?
5. There was this one time when I wrote a string of words that ended with, ‘feeding him spoonfuls of honey.’ It was when I was living in Chicago, in a sweet apartment. I wrote, ‘feeding him spoonfuls of honey,’ and I looked at these 2 birds on the rooftop outside my window.
