And so, to be overly poetic, I kind of weighed the weight of a concrete block against a piece of paper and chose the paper."
9. Which of your books is your favorite and why?
"Would be hard for me to choose.
I like KGB because it tells the story of prisoners and conspiracy theorists and people slaughtered by Bush Sr. in Panama and women and children in jail visiting rooms and other stuff. I like Joe Coffee because it tells the truth about the Democratic Party and about farmer revolutionaries and farm kitchen tables. I like Twins because it talks about a prison burning and about the Twin Cities, which I love, and about robbing Twin Cities banks to give the money to the poor on Hennepin Ave. I like Outlaw because it talks about a reporter in a small town doing what a reporter in a small town should do, pay attention to the commas and oppose the construction of the prison near town. I like The Truth because it was written in the run-up to the current war and was written in a rage against pre-war stupidity in Iowa. I like Bigfoot because I think there is a Bigfoot and I think Bush did 9/11 and I think the CIA killed the Kennedy's, and I like baseball, a lot. I like Terror Nation because I think it would be cool to be a small town sports reporter who was put into the local mental institution for writing anti-Bush letters to the editor. And a dream of mine would be to cover Iowa sports or coach baseball and have that be good enough. I like The American Dream because it's like punching America in the nose, it's like punching George W. Bush in the nose and Karl Rove in the nose. And I think those two pussies need to be punched in the nose."
10. Which of your books do you believe has had the greatest impact?
"None.
At this point in my “career” I don’t think I have had any impact whatsoever.
I have received some very kind reviews/responses, and I have appreciated those. They have given me the hope to keep going, but as for impact, I don’t see any.
Not enough people know about me at this point.
And, I believe in my books, so I’m going on tour.
“Sabu must tour or forever rest.” - John Prine."
11. In your most recent book, The American Dream, you write of a United States which has immersed itself almost completely in the ills of fascism, corporatism, consumerism, militarism, racism, and virtually all of the ills plaguing our country to one degree or another. Was this a cautionary tale? Your notion of the inevitable future of the United States? Or was it something else?
"It was just me crying out against what I see out my window.
It was me throwing a concrete block through my neighbor’s window, the windows of the local church, the city hall, the National Guard unit.
That’s what it was meant to be."
12. Please name some of the people whom you admire most and tell us why.
