Other European architecture is massive and fortified Venetian palaces are permeable, vented to let air and light pass through. It almost seems like the product of a science-fiction premise: it’s different from other European cities in ways that are so fundamental it’s hard to wrap your head around them.
Martin Seay: I had wanted to write about Venice ever since I spent a couple of days there twenty-some years ago I just thought it was the craziest place I’d ever been. This week, Melville House will publish the book’s paperback edition, so I caught up with Martin Seay - who lives in Chicago with his spouse-novelist, Kathleen Rooney - and asked him to shed more light on Renaissance Italy, the “science fictional” nature of Venice, and how he wrote a 600-page labyrinth.Īdam Morgan: What initially drew you to the city of Venice? To the 16th century? It won the first-ever Chicago Review of Books Award for Best Debut, and a year after reading the ARC, I’m still thinking about its bizarre, metaphysical mysteries.
One of my favorite books last year was Martin Seay‘s debut novel The Mirror Thief, set in three different time periods and three different versions of Venice.
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