Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors shed light on their recently released books by comparing them to weird things. This week Darrin Doyle writes about his new story collection, The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusions, out now from Wolfson Press.
If The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusions were laundry, it would be a blood-stained load of darks.
If The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusions were a comedian, it would be Andy Kaufman.
If The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusions were your brother, you would love him even after he clobbers your head with a stick of salami.
If The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusions were a body temperature, it would be elevated.
If The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusions were a canned good, it would be baked beans with hunks of bacon. Hearty, sweet, filling, with a bit of chewy gristle.
If The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusions were a shoe, it would be a single red Converse hi-top, the left one, abandoned on the railroad tracks.
If The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusions were a month, it would be October. In northern Michigan. At 3:00AM. In the middle of the woods.
If The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusions were a hospital worker, it would be the custodian, who sees and hears it all and doesn’t mind cleaning bodily fluids.
If The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusions were a misguided plan, it would be the exploding of the dead sperm whale that washed ashore in Florence, Oregon in 1970.
If The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusions were a murder, it would be a crime of passion.
Darrin Doyle is the author of the short story collections The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusions (Wolfson Press), The Dark Will End the Dark, and Scoundrels Among Us (Tortoise Books), as well as the novels The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo (St. Martin’s Press) and Revenge of the Teacher’s Pet: A Love Story (LSU Press). He lives in Mount Pleasant, Michigan and teaches at Central Michigan University. Follow him on Twitter at @doyledarrin.
