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Henry Wise is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and the University of Mississippi MFA Program. His work has appeared in Shenandoah, Nixes Mate, Radar Poetry, Clackamas, and elsewhere. Holy City is his first novel.
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SCOTT MONTGOMERY: How did you choose the story of Holy City as your first novel?
HENRY WISE: I'm not sure it was really so much a choice on my part as it was the experience that unfolded as I wrote. I had written one novel previously, and I was unable to find an agent for it, so I set out to write something on the rebound of that failure. I'd spent about ten years, total, working on that previous book, and I felt I needed to find out if I had more material in me, or if I only had the one story. After that decade-long obsession with the first book, which was about surfing in Taiwan, where I lived for several years, I doubted if I could give the same kind of intense devotion to subsequent projects. With a chip on my shoulder, I began HOLY CITY with a single image in mind, and I went from there. A great deal evolved and changed throughout the writing process, but I didn't ever feel I was in full control of what would happen. I didn't know what HOLY CITY would be, and I sort of just trusted, blindly, that if I continued to push myself and if the characters and setting and narrative surprised and interested me, that I would be able to complete the book.
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