Genre fascinates me-the idea of what you can do in a poem that you can’t in an essay, or what approaching something as fiction affords you that approaching it in nonfiction wouldn’t, and so on. Tell me a little bit about yourself, your background, your writing career, and such like. We spoke with her about her new book, writing and the importance of research, war and peace, and getting inside a bird character’s brain.
A professor in DePaul University’s English Department, Rooney’s previously published work includes the novels Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk and The Listening Room: A Novel of Georgette and Loulou Magritte, in addition to several other works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. A fictional retelling of the true story of World War I’s “Lost Battalion” (though mostly regarding its physical and emotional aftereffects on the protagonists), we hear the tale from the perspective of the two titular narrators-one human and one not. Photo credit Beth Rooney.Ĭhicago writer Kathleen Rooney recently released her latest novel, Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey. Kathleen Rooney, Poet, Author, Professor.
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