NL: Can you share a bio with us?
RF: I’m a writer and teacher who recently opened Big Red Books on Main Street.
NL: What are you currently reading? Do you like it?
RF: The Netanyahus. Protagonist Ruben Blum’s voice is mesmerizing.
NL: If you could have any author speak at Nyack Library, who would it be and why?
RF: Haruki Murakami, Kazuo Ishiguro, Elizabeth Strout.
NL: Which character in a book do you most identify with?
RF: So many: Sal Paradise, Sisyphus, Yossarian (Catch 22), Alex (A Clockwork Orange), McMurphy, Hamlet, Holden Caulfield, and Milkman Dead. I can keep going!
NL: What books are on your night stand?
RF: What Does It All Mean, How to See, Different Hours.
NL: Are there any books that you feel are overrated?
RF: A book that I think is overrated might have changed someone else’s life.
NL: Do you have a literary “guilty pleasure”?
RF: Pleasure is so fleeting that I don’t feel guilty by something, anything that’s pleasurable.
NL: Would you ever organize your books by color? Yea or Nay?
RF: No, no, no, no, no!:)
NL: What do you plan to read next?
RF: Celeste Ng’s Our Missing Hearts.
NL: What’s the first book that you remember reading?
RF: I think it was Where the Wild Things Are.
NL: What’s your least favorite book?
RF: Whenever I have been asked this question, I routinely say Jane Eyre, though the Madwoman in the Attic trope is quite poignant.