Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with Paul Rousseau, exploring his work and the themes of his book, Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir.
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Paul Rousseau is a disabled writer represented by Darhansoff & Verrillliterary agency. His debut FRIENDLY FIRE: A FRACTURED MEMOIR is available now from HarperCollins. Paul’s work has also appeared in Catapult, New Delta Review, CRAFT, Writer’s Digest, SmokeLong Quarterly, Monkeybicycle, Wigleaf, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Newsweek, among others, and has been selected for Best Small Fictions 2024, the Wigleaf Top 50, winner of the SmokeLong Summer CNF Competition 2024, as well as nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy.
Paul’s essay “Public Safety” was hand-selected by Roxane Gay to feature in her newsletter, The Audacity early in 2021. This piece can be found, in somewhat altered form, in Paul’s debut memoir, FRIENDLY FIRE, in which the author is accidentally shot in the head by his best friend and roommate one month before college graduation, and finds himself navigating the trauma of brain injury, the dehumanization of personal injury cases, and the pieces of a devastated friendship.
You can follow him on Twitter @Paulwrites7
