Q↔A: An Auto-Interview

Q↔A: An Auto-Interview is exactly what its title says: James R. Hugunin interviewing himself. The deluxe hardcover, lavishly illustrated in full color, sets questions against answers and threads in large excerpts from his major works, so the book doubles as a guided way into the rest of his shelf. It is also the clearest single instance of his method. Hugunin calls his practice ludicakadroman, "a playful species of autotheory, theory-in-action," in which the memory of lived experience is one material among artworks, theory, and other literary texts. An auto-interview turns that practice on its own maker: the critic reads himself. A natural companion to his JEF novels, including Case X.