Local Author Spotlight: Charles Kell
Local Author Spotlight
Charles Kell
Please describe your writing routine. Is there a time of day or place that is most productive for you?
In the morning, lying on the couch with notecards. In the evening, lying in bed with a notebook.
Is there anything in Lowell or in the surrounding area that has inspired your work? Such a place to take nice walks or a piece of artwork?
Sandra Lim; the ghost of Kerouac and his crew; the architecture and people
What do you believe are the most important elements of writing? How do you incorporate it into your own work?
Reading deeply of other great writers; interacting with other great writers.
What advice would you give to a young writer and/or a writer starting their first creative work? Read everything; spend most of your free time reading deeply
What were your favorite books when you were a child?
Kafka’s The Castle
Do you have any reading recommendations?
Dostoevsky; Kafka; Beckett. J.M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg
Charles Kell is the author of Ishmael Mask, (Autumn House Press, 2023.) His first collection, Cage of Lit Glass, (Autumn House Press, 2019) was chosen by Kimiko Hahn for the 2018 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize. Further information can be found on his website