An interview with Vic Cavalli, author of The Road to Vermilion Lake

this week I’d like to introduce Vic Cavalli, author of the road to vermilion lake. He has been teaching Creative Writing at the university level since 2001, and is captivated by the complex interpenetrating relationships between literature and the visual arts.  What is one thing that no one would usually know about you? I love fishing for steelhead in the winter. The colder the weather the better—snow, wind, ice forming on the edges of the river.  Those harsh elements keep all but the true devotees from the rivers and the resulting experience is a wild flame-like solitude. The ultimate contrast with my office desk at the university. Are the names of your characters important to you? Absolutely. Since reading Charles Dickens long ago and meeting characters like Mr. Smallweed, and later Flannery O’Connor and meeting characters like Mason Tarwater and Hazel Motes, or JM Coetzee and meeting characters like Michael K, I’ve always enjoyed creating symbolic names for my characters. How did you choose a title for your book? The title has its basis in physical geography and romantic anatomical coincidence. I love travelling and camping in B.C. and Alberta, and Vermilion Lake is a glorious natural wonder in Alberta. The fictional / symbolic B.C. lake of the same name in my novel is intended to echo some aspects of the physical beauty of the Albertan lake fused with the fact that the edges of a woman’s upper-lip—on either side of Cupid’s bow—are called the vermil...
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