An Interview with Charlie Mackesy, Author of our B&N Book of the Year!

the book yes it's called the boy the mole Fox and the horse and it is essentially about a voyeur mole for dollars and it's it's about their friendship their conversation what they think about life how they relate to each other it's about their fears their dreams their hopes what they struggle with it's so it's really a graphic there's a small graphic novel of images with conversation over landscape with you got the boy who's naturally inquisitive he's for about six or seven asking questions usually and the horse answers them from the mall has answers the Fox rarely speaks it's foxes being damaged by life so he's silent essentially but they love him he's but he's silent so the four of them just me and around looking at things and chatting there's no real narrative like this happen and then this happen and here they're on and you know there are one or two events but essentially the conversations other book and it's it's actually very simple book I wish I could describe it in a really like like clearer way but it's a book that I think in a sense nice sort of would need to be discovered and I feel like trying to describe a cut as it's very if you've never seen or met a cat it's quite hard to describe but it's a very simple little narrative almost a narrative about these guys and Inter vonabell it they've quite vulnerable each other and they dare to be vulnerable which makes them closer you know it's that kind of thing and it's really for anyone I you know it's Maya who's three my mum's 88 so anything between you know yeah and also I think you know when I wasn't doing the early drawings I have an Instagram account and I would put the drawings on the account and I really loved reading and responding to people on what how are they felt about the drawings you know I have quite a lot of people going here my struggling with this or I am struggling that or you know I've got a host of this yeah the answers were so varied and moving and they really helped me sort of generate the conversations and the direction of the conversations and and so I'm really grateful to them because they they helped generate the energy I was terrible at I stood you know I was really bad at treating myself well and and I've learned to sort of love myself though all those things the things I think I probably learned in life I'm trying to sort of distill and simplify right down into these little these little people um because you know hopefully someone somewhere okay you know something from him I have no idea you know when you do about this which is quite open-ended and it's asking questions and it's it's not you know there's a lot of space in the book for people to fill in physically as well that blank pages and I hope they scribble on them and they make a mess of a book and write their own answers in them and you know just I think I have no idea how people will feel if some might not like it at all some might think it's a bit odd so much I don't know but I like to think that everyone will has a completely unique response to it and if I had to say what I would love them to feel I'd like well I'd like it read to stimulate like conversation and for friendships to grow out of the conversations and for it to stimulate honesty I know for a long time I never dairy say how I felt about life so you know just to catalyze good good things that how people live more deeply for me

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Length: 4min 15sec (255 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 11 2019