Interview with Damon Hubbs
1. Where do you find “magic” in your own life?
It sounds cliche, or worse, like a tagline for a bad rom-com . . . but magic is everywhere—in literature, art, music, film, conversation, the natural world, or in something as mundane as a trip to the grocery store. It's like that quote from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Magic is always there. We just need to slow down and look around.
2. How does magic change as we grow older?
Magic doesn't really change, does it? We change, and therefore we find different things magical when we're 50 or 60 than we did when we were 18 or 30.
3. If you could meet a character from any story ever written, who would it be, and why?
It would be fun to have a Mad Hatter tea party with Jay Gatsby, Molly Bloom, Emma Bovary, and Raskolnikov. However, I'd like to meet Frog and Toad from Arnold Lobel's series of illustrated children's books from the 1970s. My mother read those books to me as a child and it made a big impact. Frog and Toad are always having misadventures and misunderstandings but at the end of the day their friendship makes the world a better place. That's pretty magical.
Damon Hubbs lives in a small town in Massachusetts. He graduated with a BA in World Literature from Bradford College. When not writing, Damon can be found growing microgreens, divining the flight pattern of birds, and ambling the beaches and forests of New England with his wife and two children. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Book of Matches, The Chamber Magazine, and Eunoia Review.
It sounds cliche, or worse, like a tagline for a bad rom-com . . . but magic is everywhere—in literature, art, music, film, conversation, the natural world, or in something as mundane as a trip to the grocery store. It's like that quote from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Magic is always there. We just need to slow down and look around.
2. How does magic change as we grow older?
Magic doesn't really change, does it? We change, and therefore we find different things magical when we're 50 or 60 than we did when we were 18 or 30.
3. If you could meet a character from any story ever written, who would it be, and why?
It would be fun to have a Mad Hatter tea party with Jay Gatsby, Molly Bloom, Emma Bovary, and Raskolnikov. However, I'd like to meet Frog and Toad from Arnold Lobel's series of illustrated children's books from the 1970s. My mother read those books to me as a child and it made a big impact. Frog and Toad are always having misadventures and misunderstandings but at the end of the day their friendship makes the world a better place. That's pretty magical.
Damon Hubbs lives in a small town in Massachusetts. He graduated with a BA in World Literature from Bradford College. When not writing, Damon can be found growing microgreens, divining the flight pattern of birds, and ambling the beaches and forests of New England with his wife and two children. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Book of Matches, The Chamber Magazine, and Eunoia Review.